Abandon Quotes

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

I got an email from somebody who's mad, and from the sound of it it's enough to make this person abandon [Donald] Trump.

I will never abandon you. I love you too much.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Abandon money for authenticity.

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.

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.

But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.