Abandon Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe…

— Anonymous

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

“Only one thing is inarguable: without a body of convictions, life becomes a series of events in futile pursuit of utopia on earth, or…

— Bill Bradley

“Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves…

— Terry Brooks

“But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for…

— Louis Theroux

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who…

— Najib Razak

“I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to…

— James Harvey Robinson

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend…

— Larissa Lai

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

— Angeles Arrien

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

— Judith McNaught