Abandoned Quotes

• Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Books
  • Finished

• If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  

  George Sutherland
  • Constitution
  • Abandoned
  • Provisions

• 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

• Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Doubt
  • True Love
  • Abandoned

• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Pleasure

• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • World
  • Daily
  • Lucky

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Family
  • Abandoned
  • Dining

• Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Long
  • Meetings

• In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • English
  • Nobody

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Proved
  • Morally
  • Begun

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Grief

• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Age
  • Funny
  • Light

• I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

  

  will.i.am
  • America
  • Cities
  • Apples

• THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • End
  • Rope
  • Valley

• I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • People
  • Book
  • Building

• 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
  • Abandoned
  • Scheme
  • Reconclined

• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Relaxed
  • Abandoned
  • Effortless

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

  

  William Bartram
  • Bird
  • Helpless
  • Tribes

• For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • Children
  • Christian

• The Kurds' achievement was outstanding, both militarily and diplomatically. European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too, acted correctly. Now, we need a joint military leadership so that the Kurds and the army can retake Mosul.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Military
  • Leadership
  • Army

• To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Greed
  • Told
  • Supporters

• Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

  

  William Boyd
  • Heart
  • Running
  • Quality

• After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.

  

  Xavier de Maistre
  • Person
  • Unhappy
  • Abandoned

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