Top 70 Absent Quotes

I know what I wanna be and what I don’t wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Congressman Engel had a reputation quite frankly for being absent from the community, being disengaged and not being a leader or fighter on the issues that matter most, and that’s not just rhetoric.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.

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

It’s actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

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.

To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen.

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.

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don’t have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.

One of the best ways to see how critical being present is to effective leadership is to notice what being absent, distracted, hiding something, and/or agenda-driven does to people’s ability to trust, respect, and have confidence in you.

In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the 1990s, when Chinese science fiction, isolated from the influence of the West, developed on its own.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

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.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It’s absolutely absent.

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

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

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

Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during its descent into madness. I find it a comfort that Obama-as-dad presided over a family that leaves the White House healthy and happy.

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.’

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food – it is also rarely available even on request.

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

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.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

My mother was the influence on me – my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

I think that’s like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it’s going to manifest.

I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.

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.

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.

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.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

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.

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 loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

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.

There’s never been an era absent of demagogues.

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

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.

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

Gray is the color… the most important of all… absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

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.

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

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.

Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.

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.

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

I don’t want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I viewed black musicals before ‘Jelly’ as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.