Abandoned Quotes - Page 21

• Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

  Luke Ford

  Religious, Way, Months

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• Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

  Erik Erikson

  Generations, Sequence, Loses

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Names, Middle East, Desert

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

  John Piper

  Darkness, Betrayed, Hours

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• My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

  Mark Webber

  Mother, Sleep, Abandoned Buildings

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• I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

  John Lindsay

  Mistake, Years, Trying

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Kings, Blessed

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• The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cover Ups, Denial

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.15, Open Court Publishing

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• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Opportunity, Punishment

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• But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

  Wess Stafford

  Safety, Heaven, Adults

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ideas, Long, Car

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

  George Bellows

  Thoughtful, Trying, Done

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• Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Vietnam, Metaphor

  "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  Preston Sturges

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

  Theodore Millon

  Feelings, Abandon, Response

  Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah E. Meagher, Seth D. Grossman, Rowena Ramnath (2012). “Personality Disorders in Modern Life”, p.481, John Wiley & Sons

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• To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

  Elaine Dundy

  Blessed, Destiny, Stories

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• Never lose hope
  when the beloved
  sends you away.
  If you're abandoned
  if you're left hopeless
  tomorrow for sure
  you'll be called again.
  If the door is shut
  right in your face
  keep waiting with patience
  don't leave right away.
  Seeing your patience
  your love will soon
  summon you with grace
  raise you like a champion.

  Rumi

  Doors, Waiting, Grace

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• There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Arrogance, Desire

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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

  Daniel Clowes

  Drawing, Effort, Too Much

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Hair, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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