Abandoned Quotes

532 quotes by 450 authors

During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed… — Peter Drucker
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of… — Ajahn Brahm
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. — Ugo Betti
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. — Henry Ward Beecher
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore de Balzac
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter… — Stephen King
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I… — Martin Luther
When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been… — Rajneesh
I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned… — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from… — Unknown Author
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco Goya
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis… — Wolfgang Smith
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. — Wes Fesler
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 unemployed.… — Bob Hawke

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