Mad World' was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and had been brought up by single mothers with absent fathers.
Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.
Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
