Abandon Quotes - Page 9

• All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  Jared Diamond

  Practice, Use, Literature

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• The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hate, Party, Doors

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Moonlight Becomes You”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Ego, Different

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• Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

  Kenan Malik

  Responsibility, Moral, Judgment

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• Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

  Agnes Varda

  Gleaning, Body, Film

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Summer, Sports, Responsibility

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• The word "YouTuber," even though - listen, I love YouTube, and I would never, ever abandon it, but I think when somebody says "Youtuber" it says "Oh, they talk about what they ate that day." That's not me - I do way more than that.

  Shane Dawson

  Love You, Thinking, Way

  Source: cultural-learnings.com

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• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Negative Words, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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• God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Religious, Affliction, Care

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• I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Mind, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

  Alain Badiou

  Character, Democracy, Communism

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kings, Home, Giving

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• Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

  Sophia Amoruso

  Might, Habit, Extraordinary Life

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.20, Penguin

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• Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

  Mason Cooley

  Patience, Men, Waiting

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• As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

  Sherry Turkle

  May

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

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• The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

  Mathew Staver

  Christian, Religious, Tests

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• [Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sunday, Years, White

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• To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.

  John Dos Passos

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

  Martin Walser

  Years, Trying, Not Interested

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.

  Andrew Saul

  Reading, Anxiety, Needs

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.

  Jose Parla

  Past, Roots, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

  Max Ehrmann

  Laughter, Children, Heart

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.7, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sex, Return, Glee

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.97, Ballantine Books

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