Abandoned famous quotes

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

#Brilliant #Fantasy #Abandoned

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

#Art #Reality #Abandoned

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

#Technology #Abandoned #Feels

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- Dalai Lama

#Buddhist #Logic #Abandoned

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

#Abandoned

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

#Intimacy #Abandoned #Deny

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

#Party #Cherish #Abandoned

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Complicated #Abandoned

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
-- Ernest Bramah

#Abandoned

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

#Abandoned #Autonomy #Feels

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

#Detroit #Abandoned #Very Popular

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
-- Gene Fowler

#Book #Abandoned

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
-- George Lucas

#Abandoned

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
-- George R. R. Martin

#Choices #Abandoned #Friendless

[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.
-- Georges Bataille

#Wings #Causes #Abandoned

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

#Lasts #Revolution #Abandoned

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

#Abandoned #Whole Life

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

#Painting #Abandoned #Monet

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

#Lgbt #Belief #Abandoned

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

#Book #Topics #Abandoned

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.
-- Ida Tarbell

#Circles #Chance #Abandoned

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

#World #Melancholy #Abandoned

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.
-- James Bryant Conant

#Facts #Stubborn #Abandoned

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.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Calling #Misfits #Abandoned

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.
-- Joan Didion

#Adoption #Problem #Abandoned

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God
-- John Eldredge

#Heart #Worship #Abandoned

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Practice #Matter #Abandoned

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Art #Design #Abandoned

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

#Reckless #Abandoned #Pun

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

#Letting Go #Social #Abandoned

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

#Together #Abandoned

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

#Fate #Birth #Abandoned

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.
-- Matthew Quick

#Helping #Abandoned #Needed Help

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

#Beloved #Helping #Abandoned

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Book #Writing #Abandoned

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Jesus #Abandoned #Ends

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Abandoned

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

#Punishment #Self #Abandoned

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

#School #Abandoned

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Railroads #Abandoned

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

#Positive Thinking #Positivity #Abandoned

Love can be put off, never abandoned.
-- Propertius

#Abandoned

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
-- R. Lee Ermey

#True Love #Doubt #Abandoned

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

#Grief #Eye #Abandoned

What abandoned course is that?
-- Sam Snead

#Golf #Abandoned

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

#Heaven #Protection #Abandoned

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.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Discovery #Abandoned #Made

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
-- Tablo

#Book #Empty #Abandoned

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
-- Tama J. Kieves

#Favors #Relief #Abandoned

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-
-- Teresa Medeiros

#Blessed #Abandoned

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
-- Theodore Millon

#Feelings #Abandoned #Abandon

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
-- Tim Robbins

#Film #Abandoned

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

#Needs #Vulnerable #Abandoned

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

#Heart #Unhappy #Abandoned

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

#Bird #Tribes #Abandoned

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.
-- Catherine Camus

#Years #Selling #Abandoned

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.
-- Stephanie Miller

#Republican #Abandoned #Raised

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

#Novelty #News #Abandoned

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

#Perfection #Scene #Abandoned

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

#Writing #Abandoned #Ends

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

#Dream #Musician #Abandoned