Abandoned Quotes

532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self… — Guru Nanak
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is… — Guru Nanak
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson
Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be… — David Eisenberg
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in… — Walter J. Phillips
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me. — Samuel Morse
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. — Gerald R. Ford
Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and… — Jodie Foster
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned… — Hunter S. Thompson
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t… — Mercury Morris
Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy… — Iain Pears
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this… — Paul Valery
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert… — Emile M. Cioran
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive… — Martha Gellhorn
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so… — Andy Goldsworthy
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a… — Gail Collins

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