Quotes about Abandoned

Art is never finished, only abandoned. Votes: 4

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Votes: 4

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. Votes: 4

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Votes: 4

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. Votes: 4

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Votes: 3

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. Votes: 3

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish. Votes: 3

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. Votes: 3

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. Votes: 3

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. Votes: 3

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. Votes: 3

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. Votes: 3

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. Votes: 3

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Votes: 3

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. Votes: 3

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. Votes: 3

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. Votes: 3

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it. Votes: 3

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. Votes: 3

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. Votes: 3

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. Votes: 3

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. Votes: 3

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. Votes: 3

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers. Votes: 3

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. Votes: 3

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. Votes: 1

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. Votes: 1

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. Votes: 1

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. Votes: 1

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Votes: 1

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Votes: 1

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. Votes: 1

People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them. Votes: 1

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me. Votes: 1

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. Votes: 1

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. Votes: 1

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. Votes: 1

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. Votes: 1

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. Votes: 1

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. Votes: 1

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. Votes: 1

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. Votes: 1

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside. Votes: 1

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. Votes: 1

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. Votes: 1

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. Votes: 1

What abandoned course is that? Votes: 0

I've never abandoned the novel. Votes: 0

My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me. Votes: 0

Recently abandoned women can be complicated. Votes: 0

Good books are never finished but abandoned. Votes: 0

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters Votes: 0

Poems are never finished - just abandoned Votes: 0

A movie is never finished, only abandoned. Votes: 0

A book is never finished; it's abandoned. Votes: 0

Love can be put off, never abandoned. Votes: 0

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned. Votes: 0

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor. Votes: 0

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. Votes: 0

When she needed help most, she was abandoned. Votes: 0

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. Votes: 0

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. Votes: 0

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself. Votes: 0

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. Votes: 0

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. Votes: 0

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology. Votes: 0

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. Votes: 0

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise. Votes: 0

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. Votes: 0

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God Votes: 0

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. Votes: 0

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. Votes: 0

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. Votes: 0

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Votes: 0

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. Votes: 0

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans. Votes: 0

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump. Votes: 0

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism. Votes: 0

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. Votes: 0

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Votes: 0

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. Votes: 0

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump. Votes: 0

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. Votes: 0

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. Votes: 0

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass. Votes: 0

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. Votes: 0

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. Votes: 0

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. Votes: 0

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. Votes: 0

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time. Votes: 0

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. Votes: 0

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. Votes: 0

It is man who has abandoned God, not God who has abandoned man. Votes: 0

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that. Votes: 0

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. Votes: 0

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong. Votes: 0

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved. Votes: 0

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. Votes: 0

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. Votes: 0

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. Votes: 0

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. Votes: 0

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy Votes: 0

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve. Votes: 0

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. Votes: 0

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. Votes: 0

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. Votes: 0

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique. Votes: 0

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. Votes: 0

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. Votes: 0

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! Votes: 0

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. Votes: 0

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. Votes: 0

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. Votes: 0

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician. Votes: 0

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. Votes: 0

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. Votes: 0

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could. Votes: 0

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection Votes: 0

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. Votes: 0

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. Votes: 0

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti. Votes: 0

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... Votes: 0

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism. Votes: 0

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. Votes: 0

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me. Votes: 0

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. Votes: 0

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road Votes: 0

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy. Votes: 0

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live? Votes: 0

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with. Votes: 0

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved. Votes: 0

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned. Votes: 0

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God. Votes: 0

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause. Votes: 0

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. Votes: 0

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters. Votes: 0

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. Votes: 0

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. Votes: 0

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun. Votes: 0

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you. Votes: 0

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Votes: 0

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love. Votes: 0

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. Votes: 0

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results. Votes: 0

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. Votes: 0

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. Votes: 0

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. Votes: 0

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. Votes: 0

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. Votes: 0

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular. Votes: 0

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. Votes: 0

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. Votes: 0

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. Votes: 0

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you. Votes: 0

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Votes: 0

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, Votes: 0

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. Votes: 0

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs. Votes: 0

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. Votes: 0

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. Votes: 0

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. Votes: 0

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned. Votes: 0

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war Votes: 0

We made mad loveshadow loverandom loveand abandoned love.Accidentally like a martyr.The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder. Votes: 0

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. Votes: 0

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America. Votes: 0

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. Votes: 0

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power. Votes: 0

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. Votes: 0

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. Votes: 0

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. Votes: 0

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. Votes: 0

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on, Votes: 0

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die. Votes: 0

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. Votes: 0

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. Votes: 0

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires. Votes: 0

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. Votes: 0

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years. Votes: 0

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Votes: 0

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances. Votes: 0

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. Votes: 0

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. Votes: 0

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... Votes: 0

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities. Votes: 0

For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior? Votes: 0

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. Votes: 0

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. Votes: 0

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. Votes: 0

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. Votes: 0

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve. Votes: 0

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. Votes: 0

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned. Votes: 0

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way. Votes: 0

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate... Votes: 0

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world. Votes: 0

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. Votes: 0

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole. Votes: 0

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort. Votes: 0

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Votes: 0

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Votes: 0

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do. Votes: 0

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. Votes: 0

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. Votes: 0

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned. Votes: 0

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned. Votes: 0

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours. Votes: 0

The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow Votes: 0

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life. Votes: 0

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find. Votes: 0

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore? Votes: 0

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. Votes: 0

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me. Votes: 0

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me. Votes: 0

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. Votes: 0

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. Votes: 0

...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you... Votes: 0

Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on. Votes: 0

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor- Votes: 0

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. Votes: 0

He'd developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them. Votes: 0

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. Votes: 0

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. Votes: 0

Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 0

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned. Votes: 0

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible. Votes: 0

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 0

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Votes: 0

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn't object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned. Votes: 0

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders. Votes: 0

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out. Votes: 0

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism. Votes: 0

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with. Votes: 0

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Votes: 0

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. Votes: 0

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures. Votes: 0

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich. Votes: 0

I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929. Votes: 0

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 0

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. Votes: 0

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us. Votes: 0

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. Votes: 0

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned? Votes: 0

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world. Votes: 0

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles. Votes: 0

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds. Votes: 0

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this. Votes: 0

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. Votes: 0

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. Votes: 0

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. Votes: 0

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned. Votes: 0

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world. Votes: 0

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition. Votes: 0

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects. Votes: 0

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe. Votes: 0

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense. Votes: 0

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. Votes: 0

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. Votes: 0

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings. Votes: 0

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself. Votes: 0

We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy. Votes: 0

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. Votes: 0

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be. Votes: 0

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters Votes: 0

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Votes: 0

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made. Votes: 0

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means. Votes: 0

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go. Votes: 0

I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater. Votes: 0

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. Votes: 0

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Votes: 0

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre. Votes: 0

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect. Votes: 0

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name? Votes: 0

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule. Votes: 0

In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism. Votes: 0

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process. Votes: 0

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. Votes: 0

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places. Votes: 0

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it. Votes: 0

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. Votes: 0

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it. Votes: 0

I started out in a kid's backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can't touch you, they can't tackle you. Votes: 0

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us. Votes: 0

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. Votes: 0

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally. Votes: 0

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all. Votes: 0

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin. Votes: 0

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman . Votes: 0

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. Votes: 0

Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that, since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars. Votes: 0

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. Votes: 0

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe. Votes: 0

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? Votes: 0

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. Votes: 0

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. Votes: 0

Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first. Votes: 0

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. Votes: 0

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved. Votes: 0

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned. Votes: 0

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes. Votes: 0

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort. Votes: 0

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers. Votes: 0

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office. Votes: 0

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. Votes: 0

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. Votes: 0

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers. Votes: 0

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned. Votes: 0

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?" Votes: 0

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. Votes: 0

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from. Votes: 0

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? Votes: 0

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic. Votes: 0

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics. Votes: 0

American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them. Votes: 0

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area. Votes: 0

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being. Votes: 0

The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned. Votes: 0

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts. Votes: 0

I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy. Votes: 0

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep. Votes: 0

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. Votes: 0

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. Votes: 0

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. Votes: 0

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned. Votes: 0

It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job. Votes: 0

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height. Votes: 0

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned. Votes: 0

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions. Votes: 0

Restrictionistic ideas have never met with any measure of popular sympathy except after a time of monetary depreciation when it has been necessary to decide what should take the place of the abandoned inflationary policy. Votes: 0

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it. Votes: 0

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story. Votes: 0

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards. Votes: 0

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour. Votes: 0

Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned. Votes: 0

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice. Votes: 0

I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all. Votes: 0

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide. Votes: 0

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth. Votes: 0

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. Votes: -1