Abandon Quotes - Page 27

• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  Amy Lowell

  Intelligent, Feet, Desire

  "Dial", January 1917.

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• If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Suffering, Growth

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• The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Truth Is, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes way. Cities of the plain”, Vintage

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

  George Orwell

  Army, Looks, Retreat

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Roots, Mind, Caves

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

  Harriet Lerner

  Distance, Cat, Thinking

  "The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2012.

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• The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

  Ellen G. White

  Agony, Might, Kingdoms

  Ellen G. White (1926). “The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, p.228, Digital Inspiration

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• There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

  Connie Willis

  Race, Drs, Moments

  Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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• Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday.

  Nick Stone

  Mean, Learning Something New, Yesterday

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• The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.

  Walter Wykes

  Drama, Believe, Character

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• I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Dream, May, Way

  "Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.

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• I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

  Kelly Link

  Giving Up, Ideas, Stories

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Suicide, Grief, Perspective

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Past, Men

  "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Interview with Tracy K. Smith – 'Poets are Lucky'". Interview with Michael Klein, blog.pshares.org. May 30, 2012.

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• Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

  Alan Hirsch

  Biblical, Greed, Vision

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

  Alan Hirsch

  Adventure, Loss, Risk

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books

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• Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.

  Max Horkheimer

  Philosophy, Fighting, Two

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

  Abu Nuwas

  Giving Up, Free Spirit, Lust

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• So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

  R. K. Laxman

  Cartoon, Sides, Serious

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• Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Care

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• Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Real, Get Well, Men

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• The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Biblical, Order, Years

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• Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

  Daniil Kharms

  Jesus, Fall, Atheism

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