Abandoned Quotes

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

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

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

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

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

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

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

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

When I first started training for wrestling I kind of abandoned everything else.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

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

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

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

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

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

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

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump.

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

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

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

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.