Abandoned Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

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

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

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

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

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

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?

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

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

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.

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.

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

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

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