Absent Quotes

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
Charles Rangel

Father, Nobody, Talks

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
Matt Damon

Alone, Happy, Sex

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
Geraldine Brooks

Life, Women, Men

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

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

Speak, Willing, Ill

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
Paul Weyrich

Judge, Role, Importance

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

Men, Said, Books

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

Present, Presence, Ambassador

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

Happiness, Presence, Rarely

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Julian Barnes

Art, Nothing, Between

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
Wolfgang Schauble

Work, Best, Finance

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

Heart, Why, Put

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
Chris Van Hollen

Success, Medical, United

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Bryant McGill

Education, Yourself, Dangerous

Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.
Bob Saget

Here, Structure, Paul

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
David Plouffe

America, Special, Fair

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
John P. Kotter

Fear, Means, State

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.
Patsy Kensit

Time, Men, Home

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'
Lydia Ko

School, Understand, Why

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

Theory, Mental, Evolution

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

Living, Dead, Actor

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

Dead, Dramatic, Author

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Charles Reade

Children, Themselves, Helpless

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

Men, Two, Three

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
John Walsh

Children, Hell, Number

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're going to jail. Absent that, you're entitled to say whatever you want to say within reason.
Bob Buckhorn

Law, Reason, Whatever

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
John H. Morgan

Writing, May, Made

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

Home, Father, Children

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colley Cibber

Change, Time, Death

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
John Chafee

Done, House, Senate

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