Abandonment famous quotes

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Ideas #Surrender #Abandonment

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
-- Arthur Miller

#Expression #Finals #Abandonment

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
-- Candace Pert

#Healing #Isolation #Abandonment

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
-- Carrie P. Meek

#Abandonment #Alienation

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.
-- Dalai Lama

#Laughing #Abandonment #Very Good

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
-- E. Stanley Jones

#Spiritual #Purpose #Abandonment

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
-- Germaine Greer

#World #Slavery #Abandonment

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
-- Henry Charles Carey

#Feelings #Slavery #Abandonment

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.
-- Henry Suso

#Men #Abandonment

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.
-- Irving Copi

#Abandonment #Reason #Force

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.
-- Leslie Ludy

#True Beauty #Sparkle #Abandonment

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
-- Malcolm X

#Heartbreak #Betrayal #Abandonment

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
-- Marco Arment

#Writing #Quality #Abandonment

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

#Children #Never Forget #Abandonment

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.
-- Patti Stanger

#Issues #Long #Abandonment

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child ***** is mainstream?
-- Randall Terry

#Children #Long #Abandonment

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Prayer #Abandonment

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
-- Steven Gould

#Abandonment #Labor

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
-- Theodor Adorno

#Fear #Self #Abandonment

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Character #Thinking #Abandonment

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.
-- Kevin Grevioux

#Abandonment #Metaphor #Accepted

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.
-- Kim Hyesoon

#Writing #Kind #Abandonment

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.
-- Tony Meloto

#Poverty #Abandonment #Poor

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.
-- Paul Taylor

#Car #Problem #Abandonment

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
-- Solomon Schechter

#Abandonment #Torah #Judaism