A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
Donna Rice

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Francis Wright

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Elizabeth Ashley

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Patti Davis

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller