“Greater things are believed of those who are absent”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“[Discrimination isn't always conscious, or maybe it's just absent-minded.] I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, ... Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.”
Condoleeza Rice
“Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to dwell?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“A good husband is healthy and absent.”
Japanese Proverb
“Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”
Cyril Connolly
“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
George Santayana
