In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What scares us ultimately may not be closeness itself but the feelings it evokes. For someone with a fear of engulfment, closeness… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect,… — Kenny Guinn Copy Share Image
“Last night, I realized that it is possible for love to die in an instant. It felt sickening to lie with you… — Christine Celis Copy Share Image
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in hers. Oh. Oh . They… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“...please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things… — Marc Weissbluth Copy Share Image
The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
“Moving from teaching university students to living with mentally handicapped people was, for me at least, a step toward the platform where… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart… — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war,… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image