Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
