Absent Quotes - Page 6

• I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.

  Damon Albarn

  Memories, Taken, Journey

  Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 07, 2014.

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• The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

  Herman Melville

  Lonely, Stars, Memories

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.138, Velvet Element Books

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• What living occasion can,
  Be just to the absent?

  W. H. Auden

  Occasions

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

  Isidore of Seville

  Eye, Voice, Ears

  "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

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• Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Mean, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Believe, Love Is, Mutual Respect

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Games, Play, Musical

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

  Sigmund Freud

  Writing, Voice, Persons

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Art, Pieces

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People will change when they see that the change will help them reach their goals. If the CHRO sees that the HR transformation that others desire will help the CHRO reach his or her goals, then there will be more support. Absent this reasoning, the CHRO may go through the motions, but the transformation will not be sincere or lasting.

  Dave Ulrich

  Goal, People, Support

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

  Anne Bancroft

  Poetry, Should, Haiku

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• ... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Suffering, Deeds

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• We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

  Eugenia Price

  Believe, Learning, Practice

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was that the scientists are "super smart". Unbelievable. Most of these absent-minded professors cannot find the toilet.

  James Traficant

  Religious, Smart, Believe

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• When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

  Saadi

  Mean, Men, Dumb

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• Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheism, Firsts, Produce

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• In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Exercise, People, Imagination

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• Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Order, Meditation, Mind

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• Not an angel of the air,
  Bird melodious or bird fair,
  Be absent hence!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Bird

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

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• Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

  Spartacus

  Memories, May, Arms

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• Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

  George Washington

  Evil, Unjust, Speak

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.415

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• If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.

  Rod Dreher

  Religious, Believe, Men

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