Best 193 quotes in «abandoned quotes» category

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

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

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

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

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

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

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

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

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

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

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

What abandoned course is that?

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

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

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.

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

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.