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The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.


Theodore C. Sorensen

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SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen...
THOMAS MERTON Absent in body, but present in spirit.
BIBLE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
PROVERB We had a good start, our press was effective and we controlled the tempo. But I never felt comfortab...
DAVE POWER It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.
JIMMY GREAVES Where fear is present, excuses are present and Where fear is absent, excuses are absent.
LEBOGANG MARUMO Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.
STEPHEN RICHARDS But that was not his intention. That (avoiding the tax) never crossed his mind. It was not his pract...
LARRY HARDAWAY My presence of mind is frequently absent.
RAIN BOJANGLES She’d never met someone so young who was so damn cocky. Most twenty-year-old guys she knew were ei...
AMY ANDREWS I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
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MARIAH CAREY His presence was invaluable, not just for the team, but for baseball itself.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Bob was always a joker with me, ... I was his boss, but you'd never know it.
JAMES WOLFE He did everything to-get-her but together was never his goal.
SANJO JENDAYI Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
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JOHN ASTIN Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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CLARK BREWSTER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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DEYTH BANGER There was never any hesitation. We never had any doubt about his credibility.
DAVID B. ANDERS There was never 'no' in his vocabulary.
TOM CLARK The accused should not be compelled to come to the court if his lawyer was absent.
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OSHO I don't know about his military service, but he was never a pharmaceuticals executive.
HOLLY PERA And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
ERICH SEGAL I was never a child who was sitting on his lap.
JOSEF STALIN The heart never lies
CHRISTINE LOVE NEVER DIES but I never believed for a minute Peter was serious. He loved this job. It was his core being.
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THEODORE C. SORENSEN I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile man...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, t...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial f...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, H...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side incl...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I hav...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very ...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or ev...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN Presidential candidates don't chew gum.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present ...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weapo...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We remain essentially a nation under siege.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations ins...
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THEODORE C. SORENSEN The Exo went pale when he realized what we were dealing with. Well, what he thought we were dealing ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA His attitude, just his presence was lacking early in the year. But he found it and now he's locked i...
CHRIS NELSON He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into...
EVELYN FOX That was his number, I never wanted it.
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BRAD COKER My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different ...
ANDY BEHRMAN He that fears you present will hate you absent.
THOMAS FULLER He that fears you present will hate you absent
THOMAS FULLER Your present circumstances may seem limited, but you are never limited by your present circumstances...
MISHI MCCOY It was not so much his scoring and rebounding, but it was his presence. Teams focus a lot on him and...
JOE HICKS A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the di...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK The entire time, he’d only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never ...
ASPEN MATIS Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
ANON. Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence
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JERRY REED And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Just to be there in his presence was enough.
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ANDREW BARRETT It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.
ALAN PATON He was a small person and very soft spoken, but he was a huge presence in the department and the uni...
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KATE MOSS God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost pe...
SIMONE WEIL Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.
MARTY RUBIN True Peace can only ever be achieved when all are absent of its presence
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LOUIS FABIAN BACHRACH There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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FRANKA POTENTE His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The only thing that never wavered was his teammates and the coaching staff,
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THEODORE STURGEON Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
THEODORE PARKER I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not gui...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loude...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politics is the science of urgencies.
THEODORE PARKER Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla...
THEODORE WHITE The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
THEODORE ROETHKE He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been...
THEODORE WHITE In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav...
THEODORE RUBIN The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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