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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• 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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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Science, Finished

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Hard

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Cold, Appreciated

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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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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• Love can be put off, never abandoned.

  Propertius

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• At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

  Georges Danton

  Lasts, Revolution, Perceive

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cry, Rage, Infant

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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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• 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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• 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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• Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Clouds, Sky

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• A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

  Zig Ziglar

  Taken, Commitment, Goal

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.173, Pelican Publishing

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

  Dick Armey

  Party, Cherish, Democratic

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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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