You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

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