Abandoned Quotes

532 quotes by 450 authors

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances. — Uta Hagen
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland… — Mitt Romney
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to… — William Rehnquist
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make… — B.F. Skinner
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is… — Emile Durkheim
Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France… — Boris Brasol
When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father… — Charles Stanley
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do… — Don DeLillo
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated… — Gautama Buddha
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to… — Gautama Buddha
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and… — Xunzi
Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace… — Cyprian
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the… — Larry Dossey
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Unknown Author
If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of… — Herodotus
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love. — R. Lee Ermey
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what… — Paulo Coelho
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. — Charles Sumner
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. — Bill Griffith

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