Abandoned Quotes

532 quotes by 450 authors

In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,… — Lucy Irvine
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]… — Harry A. Blackmun
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. — Hillary Clinton
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am… — Jeremy Paxman
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of… — Eric Kierans
Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated… — John Ricard
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the… — Mother Teresa
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,… — Thomas Jefferson
For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though Iâ€™ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. Thatâ€™s because… — Roy Choi
I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where… — Rachel McAdams
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned… — Bryce Dallas Howard
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isnâ€™t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and… — Rabih Alameddine
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keepÂ things together and make things whole. — Louise Bourgeois
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are… — Thomas Paine
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned… — Thomas Jefferson
I never have [suffered writerâ€™s block], although Iâ€™ve had books that didnâ€™t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood

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