Absentees Plural Quotes & Sayings

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God. — Elizabeth Strout

Filling with food,
Warming with clothes,
Living leisurely without learning,
It is little short of animals. — Mencius

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time. — Samantha Shannon

I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative! — W.S. Gilbert

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. — P. J. O'Rourke

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests, — Rand Paul

In physics a system is said to have a symmetry if its properties are unaffected by a certain transformation such as rotating it in space or taking its mirror image. For example, if you flip a donut over, it looks exactly the same (unless it has a chocolate topping, in which case it is better just to eat it). — Stephen Hawking

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.' — Jill McCorkle

The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger. — Nicolas Winding Refn

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does. — Neal Shusterman

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. — P. J. O'Rourke

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. — Vittorio Alfieri

A pretty girl can do no wrong. — Edward Abbey

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan