Abandon Quotes - Page 28

• If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

  Lisa Randall

  Spiritual, Religious, Choices

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• 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

  Artist, Want, Guilty

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• 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

  Passion, Reckless, Extremes

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• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Writing Advice

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Taoism

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• Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Fine Words

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• Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Years, Relief

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 12

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• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Thieves, Disappear

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• To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

  Marty Neumeier

  Comfort, Needs, Peers

  Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.76, Peachpit Press

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• Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Dream, Fun, Opportunity

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.14, Penguin

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, War

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• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  War, Law, Practice

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• Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

  Walter Murch

  Balance And Harmony, Volcanoes, Personality

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• In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.

  William Wilberforce

  Children, Parent, Infidelity

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• A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

  Ernest Gellner

  Calling, Philosopher, Subjects

  Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

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• We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

  Gwen Bristow

  Fighting, Practice, Prejudice

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• Abandon every hope, you who enter.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward Singleton (1989). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno (2 v.)”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Make Happy

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• By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Accepting, Improving

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

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• Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

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• Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Fear, Journey, Doe

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• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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