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.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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.
Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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.
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.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.
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.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are 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.
'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people do. There are a number that are frustratingly absent - you know how there's kind of a generic white man and a generic white woman? I just want to put a generic black man and a generic black woman.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
