Best 193 quotes in «abandoned quotes» category

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

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

Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true.

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump.

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.

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

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there.

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?

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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

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.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That’s because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It’s everything that I am.

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

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.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

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

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

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

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.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

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

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.