Deserted Quotes
124 quotes by 116 authors
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
— Lionel Blue
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of…
— Pearl S. Buck
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
— George Carlin
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
— John le Carre
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I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
— Babe Paley
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never…
— Anna Held
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
— Immanuel Kant
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
— Seneca the Elder
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
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Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work…
— Theobald Smith
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At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things…
— Grete Waitz
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
— William James
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Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is…
— William Rees-Mogg
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
— Boethius
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Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all…
— George Washington
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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand…
— Carl Jung
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This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
— Jane Jacobs
Who Wrote These Deserted Quotes
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