Abandon Quotes - Page 30

• Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Years, People, Forever

  Naguib Mahfouz (2011). “The Dreams”, p.260, Anchor

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• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Needs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

  Laozi

  Learning, Sorrow

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• I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Men, Landscape Painting, Calling

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• The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.

  Russell Banks

  Book, Writing, Perfect

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• If at last thou attain the desire of thy life,
  Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

  Hafez

  Desire, World, Lasts

  Hafez (2017). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Hafez (Illustrated)”, p.63, Delphi Classics

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• God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, People, Promise

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• The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Suicide, Political, Honor

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index”, p.627

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• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  LL Cool J

  People, Identity, Serious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Class, Middle

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• There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Space, Everyday

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• I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

  Amy Lee

  Self, Imaginary, Persons

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Trying, Pushing

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• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hurt, Heart, Two

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Memories, Loving You, Missing

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• Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

  William Shakespeare

  Horror, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

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• We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

  Philip Gulley

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

  Judith Martin

  People, Ugly, Behavior

  Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr

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• Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Sleep, Relax

  "Dune".

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• Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ambition, Reality, Air

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• Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivation, Giving

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• If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

  Henry Clay

  Ocean, Political, Wish

  Speech in the House of Representatives, 22 January 1812

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• There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

  Dan Chaon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

  Henry Clay

  Political, Leaving, Politics

  Henry Clay, William Branch Giles (1827). “Mr. Clay's Speech on the Tariff: Or, The "American System," So Called ; Or, The Anglican System, in Fact, Introduced Here ; and Perverted in Its Most Material Bearing Upon Society, by the Omission of a System of Corn Laws, for the Protection of Agriculture”, p.80

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• 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

  Tired, Bored, Tired And Bored

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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