Best 193 quotes in «abandoned quotes» category

The Kurds' achievement was outstanding, both militarily and diplomatically. European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too, acted correctly. Now, we need a joint military leadership so that the Kurds and the army can retake Mosul.

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

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

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

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

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.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

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

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

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

What abandoned course is that?

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

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

When I first started training for wrestling I kind of abandoned everything else.

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

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

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

Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.

All night I hear the voice of someone seeking me out. All night you abandon me slowly like the water that sobs slowly falling. All night I write luminous messages, messages of rain, all night someone checks for me and I check for someone.

While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.

Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.

And forgot about me You forgot about me And what I meant to you And then it was over

And now what will I do with all this time that forms my life with all these people who care nothing for me now, that you've left all these nights why, for whom and this morning for nothing returning my heart banging for whom why banging gravely, gravely, and now how to face up to that nothingness my life slipping o friends be gentle you know well we have nothing to do with it And now what will I do now that you . . .

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.

He smirks, shaking his head and letting his eyes wander. I watch him carefully, wondering what I can say to get him to leave. “I’m not leaving until you answer some questions. Plus, I’m holding your sketchbook hostage, so you might want to cooperate.” I raise an eyebrow at him. I guess there isn’t much I can say. “This isn’t a hostage negotiation.” He chuckles half-heartedly as his eyes take me in, almost sizing me up. “I guess I should introduce myself.” He holds a hand out for me to shake. “I’m Nathan.” I stare at his hand for a moment. “Taylor,” I reply, meeting his eyes again without taking his hand. He lets his hand fall back to his side. “At least I got you to say something non-hostile.” “I haven’t been hostile,” I object. His eyebrows shoot up. “Oh, haven’t you?” “Why don’t you leave me alone?” I snap. “Leave and don’t come back.” I move passed him, heading for my apartment. He can’t follow and annoy me if I lock the door. “Where are you going?” he demands. I look back over my shoulder and roll my eyes at him, indicating the answer should be obvious: anywhere he isn’t. Once inside, I slam the door behind me. “That was totally not hostile!” he calls after me, sarcastically. I quickly head for my bedroom door, slamming it, too.

Did Bach ever eat pancakes at midnight?

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

For all the alcoholics and addicts out there, you are loved, stopped being so stubborn and come in from the cold. Wherever you are, there is a brighter light in your sight. Move towards it every day, and keep moving towards it. Even the worst and strongest addiction is a choice—a choice not to fight, to give up, to indulge the impulse, or instead to accept the hands offered you to help, even from strangers, even from the state. Don’t hate those who gave up on you, it wasn’t their fault, you just wore them down. Show them they were wrong about you. Your troubles are meant to mold you into something better, not destroy you, so FIGHT! Another day comes for the better if you’re standing in the right spot for it to hit you. Find the right spot and stay there until it does.

He drinks his coffee tentatively, glancing at me every few seconds, watching me. Every time he glances in my direction, I quickly turn away though he obviously knows I'm watching him. I know he's wondering why I'm staring at him, but he doesn't ask. I finally take a sip of coffee, set the mug back on the table, and voice what's on my mind, "I want to draw you.

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.