Abandon Quotes - Page 7

• You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

  Sophia Loren

  Believe, Heart, Special

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• An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

  Louise Bernikow

  Sister, Children, Sibling

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

  Rex Stout

  Believe, Effort, Important

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• If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

  Tony Judt

  Citizens, Forfeit, Mediocre

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.84, Penguin

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• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  Adolf Galland

  Enemy, Air Power, Inferiority

  "The First and the Last". Book by Adolf Galland, 1954.

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• Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

  Joseph Stalin

  Loyalty, World Government, Historical

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• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  Aaliyah

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Needs

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• America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

  Dennis Prager

  Civilization, America, Political

  "The More Given, the Less Earned". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Stupid, Race, Government

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• So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
  Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
  Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
  Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Practice

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• Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Positivity, Mind, Here And There

  "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

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• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.

  Colleen Houck

  Kissing, Avalanches, Halt

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• That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Art, Mean

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• Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Deception, World

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• So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Teacher, Buddhist

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• The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Hours, Theory, Practicals

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• Lost are only those who abandon themselves.

  Hans-Ulrich Rudel

  Lost

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• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Moral High Ground, Stressed

  "Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

  David Hume

  Strong, Spring, Rivers

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Dream, Reality, Accepting

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