Abandon Quotes - Page 31

• We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.

  Ralph Smart

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• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Wall, Mistake

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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Rip, Men, Shoes

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• Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Painting, Finest, Maidens

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• Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Humanity, Majority

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Suicidal, Progress, Economics

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• The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

  Philip James Bailey

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.50

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• 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.

  Meg Cabot

  Mouths, Mines

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Coward, Obscurity, Rust

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.48, Xist Publishing

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

  S.J. Watson

  Love You, Too Much, I Love You Too

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• Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Ideas, People, Shining

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Light, Self

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• What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, People

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

  Nina Campbell

  Old Friends, Want, Possession

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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Nice, Thinking

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• When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.

  Suzy Kassem

  Love You, Weather, Caught

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• 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.

  Vincent de Paul

  Yield, Names, Tasks

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Use

  Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Children, Law, Continuity

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• People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Real, People, Mind

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• The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, World, Melancholy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Country, Real, Humanity

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• Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

  Dave McKean

  Bird, Captivity, Never Quit

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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