#absent

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dreams #dying #lost #unfulfilled #unhappy

You just tell me when and where, and not only will I not be there, but I’ll also be late. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #late #stood-up #tardy

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. ↗

— John James Audubon

#because #duty #father #i #me

Woman absent is woman dead. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#dead #woman

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. ↗

— John Calvin

#assistance #augustine #choose #disagree #does

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done. ↗

— John Chafee

#administration #done #get #going #heck

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#after #because #being #dog #his