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

    People   Absence   Absent  
  • To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

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

    Irony   Horror   Absent  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.300, e-artnow
  • Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

    Absent   Knows  
    Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.64, 谷月社
  • Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.” Then she hastens from the room.

    Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.800, Scholastic Inc.
  • For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And ifsome part of the non—entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.

    "A Single Man".
  • Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving!

    Dream   Angel   Past  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation
  • What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

    Boys   Men   Ideas  
    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

    Courage   Fear   Cancer  
  • It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

    Missing   Gone   Notable  
  • You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

    Mean   Ubuntu   Empathy  
  • An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

    Art   Age   Doe  
    Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge
  • Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction - that's why we have "days of action" where people are in real contact with each other - but it's the cheap (and low-carbon) way to do an awful lot of the planning and organizing. And we can build, for $20k, a website as good as one Exxon can build for $20 million.

    Country   Real   People  
    Source: www.wolverinefarm.org
  • 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.

  • He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

    Pain   Crazy   Teenager  
  • Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

    William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28
  • When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics
  • By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

  • How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

    Vices   Unjust   Life Is  
    Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Friendship   Dog   Home  
  • 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.

  • Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

  • Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians.

    Struggle   Gay   Rights  
    Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com
  • Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

    Numbness   Absent   Edges  
  • I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

  • When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

    Friends   Speak   Treats  
    Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.52, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.48, MIT Press
  • Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

    Love   Kindness   Absent  
  • I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

    Source: www.sdfoundation.org
  • By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.

    Life   Time   Lasts  
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