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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

  Tom Glazer

  Jobs, Night, Philadelphia

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• A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Science, Finished

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

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Rights, Political

  Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”

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

  Bill Griffith

  Romantic, Art, Vision

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• 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.

  Tim Robbins

  Film

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• 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.

  James T. Walsh

  Struggle, Mean, Goal

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• 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.

  Martha Griffiths

  Law, Wife, Giving

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• 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.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Years, Tariffs, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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

  Dick Armey

  Party, Cherish, Democratic

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

  Russell Banks

  War, United States, Cold

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• 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.

  Jon Kyl

  Military, Marine, Soldier

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• 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.

  Stacie Orrico

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Thinking

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

  Halle Berry

  Whole Life, Whole

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