Best 193 quotes in «abandoned quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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.

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.

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

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

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

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.

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

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

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

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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