The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.


Michael Caine

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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE
Never find fault with the absent.
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The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN
Where fear is present, excuses are present and Where fear is absent, excuses are absent.
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We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault
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DYLAN MORAN
Find you without an excuse, and find a hare without a meuse
PROVERB
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JAMES RODAY
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JOHN C. REILLY
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it...
LOUISE BROOKS
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital
POPE LEO XIII
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
UNKNOWN
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.
ANDREW YOUNG
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
KIM JONG-UN
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Without a future, the present serves no purpose,
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THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET.
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These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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FATOS NANO
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB
No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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Absent in body, but present in spirit.
BIBLE
The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR
there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS
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Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB
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ARNOLD H. GLASGOW
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
WILLIAM JAMES
We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
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VYACHESLAV NIKONOV
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL
The future is made of the same stuff as the present
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San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER
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the present, ... But as
always, y...
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
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STEVEN WOOD
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The present will not long endure
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch...
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...
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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI
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"You d...
RACHEL CAINE
Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”
He glanced over a...
RACHEL CAINE
Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”
“Mayb...
RACHEL CAINE
Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”
RACHEL CAINE
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you...
RACHEL CAINE
You okay?"
"Fine."
"Your heart's beating really fast."
"Gee, thanks. That's very comf...
RACHEL CAINE
He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?"
"Like what?"
"Like hitting on you....
RACHEL CAINE
Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis

Mr. P.: Go to hell
RACHEL CAINE
So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
RACHEL CAINE
But why can't we just order what we need? Or buy it?"
Myrnin flicked the silver ring on his rig...
RACHEL CAINE
Two more of the gamers Claire had gifted with the invitation stumbled by; one grabbed Claire's arm a...
RACHEL CAINE
You are not trapped in the box forever," Myrnin said, "as you well know. But I still need you, so yo...
RACHEL CAINE
Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve
RACHEL CAINE
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. T...
RACHEL CAINE
Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred squ...
RACHEL CAINE
Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anym...
RACHEL CAINE
There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE
[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teac...
RACHEL CAINE
Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pres...
RACHEL CAINE
Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE
Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake...
RACHEL CAINE
Jason talking about Michael -

"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE
You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?"
"No, I'm worrying about peo...
RACHEL CAINE
Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the...
RACHEL CAINE
I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE
No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”
“I’m stil...
RACHEL CAINE
Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
RACHEL CAINE
The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.
RACHEL CAINE
What about Myrnin?'
Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. Sh...
RACHEL CAINE
That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna ...
RACHEL CAINE
At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, stro...
RACHEL CAINE
Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's deja vu, and I hate you right n...
RACHEL CAINE
Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway."
"Says the kid who came back....
RACHEL CAINE
Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.
RACHEL CAINE
Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality show...
RACHEL CAINE
He looked down at himself and laughed softly. ‘‘My dark side dresses better than I do.’’ He ...
RACHEL CAINE
Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.
RACHEL CAINE
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the su...
MARK CAINE
See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more o...
RACHEL CAINE
You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
RACHEL CAINE
Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm ...
RACHEL CAINE