“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
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
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell 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
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
“Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“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
Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and… — Robert V. Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could… — T.J. Forrester Copy Share Image
“The notion that “no one is coming” was somehow terrifying to accept. The idea that no one was going to rescue me… — Steve Chandler Copy Share Image
I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing.… — Henry Giroux 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
One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux 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
Juno MacGuff: "Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment. — Diablo Cody 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
“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
My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards. — Romesh Ranganathan 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
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
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
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
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
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
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
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