Abandoned Quotes - Page 17

• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

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• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Profound, Juncture

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.384, Bantam

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• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  Octavia Butler

  Intelligent, Thinking, Forever

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• Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

  Antonis Samaras

  Mistake, Government, Serious

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, America, Class

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• But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Discovery, Made, New Discoveries

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• in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

  Dorothea Dix

  Compassion, Want, Cold

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• How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Song, Love Is, Sight

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• The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Successful, Technology, Political

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• In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Daughter, Men, Poetry

  Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

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• The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friends, Men, Ungrateful

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• It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Technology, Goal

  "His Master's Voice". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1983.

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• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Lasts

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

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• Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

  Ted Cruz

  America, Iran, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Helpful, Compare

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

  Banksy

  New Orleans, Two, Car

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

  Xavier Dolan

  Taken, Character, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

  Agnes Varda

  Gleaning, Body, Film

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Ghetto

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• One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Summer, Book, Destiny

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Teacher, Buddhism

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• Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

  China Mieville

  Two, Octopus, Monsters

  "A life in writing: China Miéville" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Painting, Monet, Figures

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• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, Years

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