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I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm ... absent-minded. — Matt Dillon

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven. — Billy Graham

People live long who speak their mind even when they are absent, "Speaking your mind" is your birth right. — V.V. Rao

The Mr. absent, and the house dead. — George Herbert

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Where love is absent there can be no woman. — George Sand

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. — Georges Rodenbach

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making. — Steve Mirsky

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. — George Burns

Never speak ill of an absent friend. — Plautus

Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent. — Seneca.

Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window. — Anne Mallory

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. — Alexander Pope

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. — George S. Kaufman

It does not take long to die, nor to kill. A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities. — M T Anderson

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. — Horace

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. — Tacitus

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte

The absent are easily refuted. — C.S. Lewis

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. — Greta Scacchi

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart. — Derek Luke

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly

Achilles absent was Achilles still! — Homer

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! — Charlotte Bronte

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius

To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends. — Phil Callaway

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger. — Propertius

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children? — Indira Varma

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. — Louise Brooks

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears. — Samuel Daniel

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

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi. — Emmanuel Levinas

The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life. — Marty Rubin

Books - books - books," said Helen, in her absent-minded way. "More new books - I wonder what you find in them ... — Virginia Woolf

For this was a kiss of definition. A kiss of understanding. For a marriage absent pretense. And a love without design. — Renee Ahdieh

The absent partie is still faultie. — George Herbert

Woman absent is woman dead. — Walter Bagehot

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died. — Anthony Liccione

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success — Will Smith

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Sextus Propertius

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. — Robert Copeland

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! — Ferenc Kazinczy

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit, — James D. Tabor

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent. — Theodore C. Sorensen

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. — Sathya Sai Baba

still closed CeCe says, "Don't call me she. It's rude. Pronouns are for the absent. I'm right — Sophie McManus

Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one. — Zadie Smith

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. — Rajneesh

When a beginner knows what he needs, he proves more intelligent than an absent-minded sage — Paulo Coelho

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. — Diane Setterfield

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent. — Penelope Hobhouse

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. — Elizabeth Gaskell

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. — Publilius Syrus

(How opaque, the minds of absent men and women! And how elusive, motivation! — Eleanor Catton

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent — Leo Tolstoy

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. — Jaron Lanier

Hate can only flourish where love is absent. — William C. Menninger

Absent one, how I miss you on this shore
that conjures you and fades if you're away — Eugenio Montale

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. — Bobbie Ann Mason

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help. — Alfie Kohn

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable. — Mason Cooley

Never find fault with the absent. — Alexander Pope

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. — Gary Larson

they have seem'd to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton Jr.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. — Erin Morgenstern

Friends, though absent, are still present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul — Orhan Pamuk

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary — Colin Dexter

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are. — Margaret Atwood

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. — Marcel Proust

Absent in body, but present in spirit. — Paul The Apostle

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever. — Margaret Drabble

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. — Epictetus

God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often. — Taylor Caldwell

The words she sang were his. They told of evils in the world and an absent hero. — Katherine Starbird

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. — Charles Lamb

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers

When unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are always present, "Good job!" isn't necessary; when they're absent, "Good job!" won't help. — Alfie Kohn

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? — Giordano Bruno

We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution. — Hannah Arendt

You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself. — Andrew Solomon

Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel. — Libba Bray

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world. — Jane Austen

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple — Mahmud Shabistari