Abandoning Quotes
102 quotes by 91 authors
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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the…
— Gabriela Mistral
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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning…
— Bill Bryson
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We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for…
— Jodi Picoult
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Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
— Megan Hart
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One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].
— Neil Gaiman
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And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked;…
— Gavin Douglas
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
— Desmond Tutu
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It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to…
— Marcel Proust
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The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting…
— Diane Setterfield
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Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or…
— Cynthia P. Schneider
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It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But…
— Martin Rees
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
— Unknown Author
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Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen…
— Claire McCaskill
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
— Arthur Henderson
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We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are…
— Jay Weatherill
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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities…
— Bill Bryson
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I'll come against you in justice by abandoning unable ..since you left my heart,and he is unable to live without you
— Danieltembo
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And so you volunteer to go and fetch me a substitute? I wonder... Perhaps the task of nursing me has become wearisome for you, Wormtail?…
— Lord Voldemort
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Life is an act of endless creativity. With all its simmering tragedy and occasional catastrophe, a human life is an amazing thing to contemplate and…
— Greg Graffin
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The realization that friendship is greater than love doesn't come when you have real and honest friends around. You realize it when someone whom you…
— Unknown Author
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