Abandon Quotes - Page 8

• Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

  Iwane Matsui

  Fighting, Japan, Ashes

  "Nips to Keep Philippines Even if Tokyo Falls". Los Angeles Times, February 4, 1945.

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• I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?

  Louis Wigfall

  War, Government, Territory

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• The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Taken, Home

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12

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• The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Live Life, Profound, Feelings

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, My Own, Carried Away

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• What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Cutting, Past, Together

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Modernity”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

  J. I. Packer

  Jobs, Sheep, Track

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.95, InterVarsity Press

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• The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

  D. A. Carson

  Lying, Heaven, Cost

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• The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Zero, Book, Long

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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Philosophy, Tradition, Conviction

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1989). “Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations”

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• Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Design, Understanding

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Writing, Character, Paper

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• To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Giving, Liberty

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

  Haroon Siddiqui

  Spiritual, Prayer, Yoga

  Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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• But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mistake, Iraq

  "60 minutes" with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. May 7, 2005.

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• Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

  Pope Francis

  People, Choices, Have Faith

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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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• Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.

  Evo Morales

  Artist, Intellectual, President

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• The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Attachment, Firsts

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• British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, Democracy, British

  "Theresa May accused of lifting cat anecdote from Ukip leader" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Theory, Method

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• The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

  Pope Pius XII

  Church, Tongue, Return

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• There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

  Gary Hamel

  Successful, Simple, Lessons

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

  Oswald Spengler

  Strong, War, Men

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• One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Revenge, Ideas

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