#absent

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

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

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#always #mind #out #sight #wrong

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#embrace #knowledge #recognition #salutation #something

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#as far as #concerned #far #ownership #plan

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#appeared #being #business #continuously #did

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. ↗

— Tacitus

#believed #greater #things #those #who

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ↗

— Colley Cibber

#after #assume #cease #change #death

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

#always #around #creative #creative people #dad

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#beauty #character #devoid #fragrant #gratitude