If there is a God, He abandoned me a long time ago.

“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans…

— Rick Bass

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

— Esther Perel

When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -…

— John Battelle

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in…

— Joyce Meyer

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made…

— Stacie Orrico

In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and…

— Paul Valery

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,…

— Ida Tarbell

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of…

— Jeb Bush

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”

— A.J. Nuest

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls…

— Eric Burdon

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was…

— Joan Didion

Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side…

— Gary Johnson

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

— Bob Hawke