Absenteed Quotes & Sayings

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God. — Roma Downey

The journey comes with baggage, yes. And heartbreak. But there are also many gifts. In a sense, we're all cobblers. We're all a bit like Brother Joseph, piecing together our faith, one shard of broken glass at a time. — Rachel Held Evans

Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted — Agatha Christie

He did not really mind that none of the delegates had spoken to him before leaving. But he was crushed by his failure to get them to recognize what he had long known: that without power, a people must use cunning and guile. Or were cunning and guile, based on superior understanding of a situation, themselves power? Certainly, most black people knew and used this art to survive in their everyday contacts with white people. It was only civil rights professionals who confused integrity with foolhardiness. "Faith — Sheree Thomas

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. — Joel Edgerton

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin

I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human. — Richelle Mead

Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growled. And deep under the roots of trees in little holes lived rabbits, cuddling next to their young. All the while Mr. Ant and his colony were dragging a once boisterous Nocturnal Cicada to the nest; a feast for days! I suppose my daydreaming occasionally did extend into the night. I've spent countless hours I'll never regain, but for the off-chance I was right just once, it was worth every second. — Kevin Focke

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. — Ellie Goulding

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it. — Chevy Chase

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. — Alexander Smith

The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is of great worth in God's sight. — Judith Couchman

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public. — Gary Ackerman