“It is not RNZ's policy to comment on individual staffing matters, however media reports relating to Mr Plunket's absence from RNZ have been inaccurate,”
John Barr
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”