The chief purpose of government is to protect life…

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon…

— T.L. Osborn

However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of…

— Marco Rubio

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

— Cassandra Clare

When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant…

— Roger Housden

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that…

— Thomas Nagel

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short…

— Laozi

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

— Dane Cook

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

— Edmund Burke

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the…

— Pope Francis

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

“Don't give up because things are hard, but work harder, when you think of giving up.”

— Anthony Liccione

Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played…

— Marianne Williamson

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of…

— Rhys Ifans