#absent

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#absent #body talks #father #nobody #relationship

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

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. ↗

— Matt Damon

#alone #because #been #even #happy

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#characteristics #evolution #humans #inconsistent #mental

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

— Charles Reade

#children #defend #helpless #like #themselves

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. 
 ↗

— 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

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