Quotes About Absent

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

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

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

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

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

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

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

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.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

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

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.

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