Top 41 Absentee Quotes
#1. I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.
Harold Ramis
#2. The difference between a small local business that must share the fate of the local community and a large absentee corporation that is set up to escape the fate of the local community by ruining the local community.
Wendell Berry
#4. [Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.
Roxanne Roberts
#5. Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
Thomas Carlyle
#6. If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.
All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me.
Gayle Forman
#8. My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.
Sean Bean
#9. You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated.
Martin Zwilling
#10. We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.
Sofia Coppola
#11. We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
Marcy Kaptur
#12. help us to live with more confidence that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, not a consulting partner; a very present Lord, not an absentee landlord; the reigning King, not an impotent bystander.
Scotty Smith
#13. My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
Samuel L. Jackson
#14. While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
St. Vincent
#15. If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.
Jon Stewart
#16. How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
John Brunner
#17. No. I do believe in them. I just think they're absentee landlords. Right now, they're probably hanging out somewhere in Las Vegas, screwing showgirls and cheating at poker.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#18. It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#19. I started thinking of my absentee diamond. My thumb and little finger kept reaching for their pet and sidekick.
Allan Gurganus
#20. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.
A. J. Jacobs
#21. Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#22. She was engrossed in the first chapter of The Absentee when she heard her abigail clearing her throat for the second time.
Ruth Axtell
#23. I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.
Jeanette Winterson
#24. God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
Adam Hamilton
#25. Consider Ireland ... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
Benjamin Disraeli
#26. A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'
Conan O'Brien
#27. Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.
Brian Krzanich
#28. Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Amy Carmichael
#29. Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Walter Isaacson
#30. The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Tony Blair
#31. A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
Sigmund Freud
#32. Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
Conor Oberst
#33. I don't, but angels and demons colluded to wipe shapeshifters off the face of the Earth for a reason." Elise clenched her fists. "And Rylie would have wanted it like that. Any protests?
S.M. Reine
#34. If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
Ronald Reagan
#36. We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
Kevin McCloud
#38. It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.
Marcia Cross
#39. What would answers offer and
more importantly
what might they take away?
Laura Kelly
#40. There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...
Thomas Story Kirkbride
#41. I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.
Josh James Riebock
