Absent Quotes - Page 15

• Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

  Rowan Williams

  Compassion, Community, Feelings

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• The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

  Squeak Carnwath

  World, Information, Painting

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Night, Jail

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

  Godfrey

  School, Illinois, Class

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• What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
  Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
  More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
  O weary reckoning!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Night, Eight

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 172

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• The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Dwelling, Reason

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sick, Succeed, Groups

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• I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

  Joyce Giraud

  Phones, Matter, Tvs

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• By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Life, Time, Lasts

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• An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Giving, Friendly

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• Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Oxygen, Mind

  "Warren Buffett busts a cash myth". Warren Buffett's 2014 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, www.valueresearchonline.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

  Voltaire

  Mean, Letters, Mail

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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Men, Creepy

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• My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Emotional, Worry

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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• Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

  Anne Bancroft

  Self, Form, Should

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• It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

  Timur

  Men, Hands, Thousand

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• Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Betray, Pathetic

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• Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

  Alexei Sayle

  Mean, Necks, Forget

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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