Abandoned Quotations | Page 3

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

The dam isn't the problem, it's the maintenance that's the problem. The state has abandoned this reservoir since maybe 8, going on 9 years now.

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact.

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

The Guru has shown me that this is the way of the world; I have abandoned the dwelling of pride, and entered Your Sanctuary.

The Garden Club abandoned the process. They cut us out of the process, and the flagpole went into the ground.

The county was also organized in New England, but took on chiefly judicial and military functions, and speedily abandoned local administration.

The cross-border train service has not been abandoned altogether but there are still deliberations at government-to-government level. We expect to launch the service soon.

The Cold War mentality must be abandoned once and for all, ... And a new security concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation should be established.

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

The invasion of Iraq was not justified because Saddam had already abandoned weapons of mass destruction.

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that, since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.

What abandoned course is that?

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Matthew's search for stories of people that he could help led him to an abandoned hospital in New Orleans, ... Inside were beloved pets that families had been forced to leave behind during this evacuation. One man vowed to keep them alive. And Matthew went to help him.

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.