Quotes about absent
absent express
Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all. Danny Meyer
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To me, the business cycle is working as it always does, absent an external shock. Inventory liquidation means firms have to increase production, and they're already doing that. They're also increasing the length of the work week and hiring temporary workers. All these things support income and spending.
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Too many men are absent at the crucial time when they are needed.
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Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home! William Hazlitt
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Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true? Sathya Baba
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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. Don Lemon
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With the development along that area, this projected was deemed to be a priority. Absent to that, Route 18 is becoming much more heavily traveled . This project will take steps to mitigate traffic along that corridor.
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Maurice Maeterlinck
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Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
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The president has made a commitment to rebuild and we need to fulfill that commitment, ... We cannot be an absent partner, or one who reneges, especially since the federal government failed miserably in taking action when the hurricane first hit. Sander Levin
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There is a specific reference in February to 'the pace of policy moves at upcoming meetings ... would depend on incoming data', suggesting a degree of potential flexibility that was absent from the December minutes,
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We expect very significantly higher prices, higher deductibles and tighter terms and conditions as a result of Katrina. For the next year or two, underwriting results, absent another large catastrophe, should be very, very strong.
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We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong. We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again. Harry Belafonte
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At this time, Wyoming does not have statutory authority to regulate the upward price of fuel. Absent evidence of collusive behavior, retailers are free to price their fuel using their best judgment.
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I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent and so I had a feeling something might have gone wrong.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. Colley Cibber
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There's not much players around. Buyers are mostly absent while there's a lot of tax-related selling going on.
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This is a very pragmatic approach which was completely absent for the last four years. Scott Snyder
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They're an endanger species that has been reintroduced by the DNR (Department of Natural Resources). They were noticeably absent in the state for several decades ... They're coming back nicely.
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In the vast majority of races around the country, there is no question who is going to win. Absent an indictment or scandal or $1 million in the bank, it's awfully difficult to unseat an incumbent.
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I don't think that it helps their gubernatorial chances not to have a geographic balance. The last time that balance was absent was 1970, and that ticket ended in defeat.
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during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today. Chuck Hagel
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I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do. Philip Kerr
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Urals claims to be considering a pipeline of 20-30 deals, and management expects to complete at least one substantial transaction by mid-year. We stress that, in our view, deal-flow expectations are absent from the current share price.
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It wouldn't be right to return to the table and negotiate a formal agreement absent a tangible demonstration of respect for what Canada has accomplished in the quasi-judicial system.
absent averaged challenges days eight kids learned main school students summer worked
The students averaged about eight days absent each. That's a lot and it's one of the main challenges of summer school programming. If the kids don't come, they can't learn. However, for the kids that were there, I think it worked out great. They learned a lot.
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The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their child is not there, and it brings attention to parents of older students that their child was absent without them knowing.
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The suspiciously absent real money buyers, that were expected to step in and buy as yields backed up, have finally emerged -- supporting our view that we are near a temporary floor.
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The thing that drives retail sales most and best is job availability and the ease of obtaining new jobs. Both of these factors are absent at the present time. It may not be until the end of the year that we see job growth.
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The Berlin Wall crumbled, Politburos resigned and governments vanished overnight. Half a million Czechs and Slovaks gathered ... in Prague and we sensed that a long, absent angel had returned home to Central Europe,
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A wide group of Minnesotans have been working on improving results for kids since the early 1990s, ... What we're seeing is the outcome of a long development process of school accountability and improvement that would have happened absent No Child Left Behind and absent Cheri Yecke.
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Don't be absent from your own life. Jessica Lange
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I'm probably going to run Shaky Town back on the turf somewhere, so we'll go with Absent Friend. He'll arrive on Wednesday morning and Patrick Valenzuela will ride Saturday.