“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a person needs us to abandon them, but we hang-on anyway, which can be devastating for both parties.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
There is a twinge of abandonment that comes with being a member of the African Diaspora. But 'Black Panther' fearlessly introduces and… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“When Jeff Greene was in second grade, seven and a half years old, he got home from school one Tuesday afternoon in… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness.… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“He's a feral child. No mother, no father, no one to care for him or raise him or teach him how to… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
“It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I used to think anyone with abandonment issues was a waste of space. But you do need to get help. Blokes don't… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against… — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Juno MacGuff: "Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards. — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
