I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
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.
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are com...
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
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.
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.
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
[Lucien is efficiently serving customers at the grocery while Collignon is absent] Madeleine Wallace: Where's the owner? Lucien: Shhh! Sleeping in the cauliflower!
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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.
Competition is healthy. Especially when all your competitors are unhealthy, and hopefully sick and absent during the competition.
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.
But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.
To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.
Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?
