Quotes About Absentee

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

My father, Jimmy Walker, was the first pick in the 1967 draft, but I never met him. He passed in 2007. I found out about him in middle school. I was old enough to understand who he was, where he went to college, and what his game was about. Older players like Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have come up to me to talk about him.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

I started thinking of my absentee diamond. My thumb and little finger kept reaching for their pet and sidekick.

which the other children at school had ridiculed Serena about daily. Of course, this latter part hadn't been something Diane could relate to because unlike Serena's deadbeat father, whom Serena still had never met, Diane's father had taken her school shopping at the start of every school year. He'd gifted her with some of the

When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

He became, really, the best utilizer of information to control absentee ownerships that there's ever been. Which gave him the ability to open as many stores as he opens, and run them as well as he runs them, and to be as profitable as he makes them.

Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then Gran in overdrive is not an equation that balances.

Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.

Absentee landlords never prosper. I am not absent. But I am not exactly toiling with the troops side by side, every minute of every day.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

My mom's real cool. We're like sisters. My father wasn't there, but she was always there.

If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

By the time George Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, Quinn was a different man, a practicing physician and a dedicated citizen who, knowing that he was going to be out of town for that election, had dutifully filed an absentee ballot.

Or, it goes the way of the dying seminar—fun but not enough fun, because there are not enough people to generate the loyalty and enthusiasm that would keep the number large and the absentee rate small.

Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is… so absentee.

the difference between a small local business that must share the fate of the local community and a large absentee corporation that is set up to escape the fate of the local community by ruining the local community.

A notable absentee at her father's bedside had been Isabella; she could no longer attempt to guide the rule of both Mantua and Ferrara as she had been wont over the past years.

I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

Those of you who do have a father cherish every moment, I don't know what it's like because my dad was never there for me.