Abandon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
-- Amy Lee -
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
-- Bede Griffiths -
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
-- Bono -
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
-- Carl Whitaker -
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
-- Claude Debussy -
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
-- David Dreman -
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
-- David Eagleman -
Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
-- DeVon Franklin -
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
-- Edmund Burke -
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
-- Ernest Gellner -
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
-- Ernst Mach -
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
-- Gustav Mahler -
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
-- Hans Kung -
Lost are only those who abandon themselves.
-- Hans-Ulrich Rudel -
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
-- Irving Stone -
You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
-- Jim Butcher -
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
-- Jock Sturges -
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
-- John Bartholomew Gough -
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
-- John Steinbeck -
Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.
-- Jolene Blalock -
If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.
-- Junsu -
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.
-- Meg Cabot -
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
-- Michael Enzi -
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
-- Nhat Hanh -
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
-- Nhat Hanh -
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.
-- Nicolae Ceausescu -
You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
-- Oswald Chambers -
It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
-- Paul Heyman -
Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?
-- Philip Sidney -
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
-- Phillip Mann -
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
-- R. T. Kendall -
When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.
-- Ralph Marston -
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
-- Robert E. Lee -
There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
I will never abandon you. I love you too much.
-- S.J. Watson -
The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.
-- Samael Aun Weor -
As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.
-- Sherry Turkle -
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back
-- Sophia Amoruso -
Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
-- Steve Pavlina -
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
-- Theodore Millon -
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
-- Thomas Keneally -
I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.
-- Victoria Scott -
No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.
-- Yana Toboso -
To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.
-- Yaron Brook -
Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.
-- Clayton Cramer -
There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.
-- Stephen Frears
