#absent

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#actor #animosity #dead #every #living

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#always #among #ardor #better #fares

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#ill #speak #willing

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

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