Absents Quotes

#1. The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Matthew Henry

#2. Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Charles Lamb

#3. Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.

John Milton

#5. I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.

Lamorne Morris

#6. You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

Oliver Platt

#7. Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter ... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven , just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.

David Bohm

#8. The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

Eliphas Levi

#9. Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#12. I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

Waris Ahluwalia

#13. They like bright colors," she said. He smiled at her, those dark tameless eyes, half-bold and half-shy. "They like beautiful things," he said.

Pamela Todd

#14. Don't aim too high, but set yourself a goal which is a little bit out of your reach. You might achieve it and then you can set a new goal.

Jenny Meadows

#15. Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Horace