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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
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.
I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
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.
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.
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.
I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.