#absent

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#absent #advances #although #awareness #been

Never find fault with the absent. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fault #find #never

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

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

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#happiness #know #presence #rarely

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ↗

— Charles Reade

#children #defend #helpless #like #themselves

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

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

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

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons. ↗

— John Walsh

#adam #any #children #day #diverse

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. ↗

— Gary Larson

#bluebird #chicken #depression #happiness #his