Conspicuously Absent Quotes

#1. Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Robert Breault

#2. Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

Steve Mirsky

#3. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Jim Rohn

#4. There is a coherence in things, a stability; something ... is immune from change and shines out ... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

Virginia Woolf

#5. The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.

Antal Szerb

#6. The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Samuel Mockbee

#7. High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Douglas Coupland

#8. A tap is a zero-length swipe.

Apple Inc.

#9. Tactics could never genuinely move a person.

Hideo Yokoyama

#10. Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride.

Bill Loguidice

#11. We all know about Katie's dead

Jessica Warman

#12. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Ellen Wittlinger