Abandoned Quotes

• 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.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Practice, Two

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• The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Vehicle

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• 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.

  Xunzi

  Faith, Loyalty, Hate

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

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Humanity, Compass

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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

  Emile Durkheim

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.216, Routledge

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• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Relief, Favors, Pragmatism

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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

  William Bartram

  Bird, Tribes, Young

  William Bartram (1793). “Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, etc. [With plates and a map.]”, p.23

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• 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.

  Robert Byrd

  Law, Sides, Psychological

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan

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

  Franklin Graham

  Love You, Storm, Matter

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Monsters, Criminal Mind, Abandoned Buildings

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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

  Mario Balotelli

  Children, Never Forget, Abandonment

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

  Cormac McCarthy

  Betrayal, Coward, Firsts

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

  David Eisenberg

  Views, Physicians, Needs

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• 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.

  Edvard Munch

  Eye, Doors, Smell

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• The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cry, Rage, Infant

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• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  Gary North

  Biblical, Blessing, Winning

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• In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

  Omar Bongo

  Giving, Political, Wish

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• 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.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• 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

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Writing, Character, Firsts

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• 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.

  Derek Walcott

  Landscape, Sugar, Ruins

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

  Hermann Hesse

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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