Abandoned Quotes - Page 10

• I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

  George Lucas

  Film, Finished

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• If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

  George R. R. Martin

  Choices, Friendless, Dies

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1384, Bantam

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• I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

  Charles Bukowski

  Guy, Lucky, Blame

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Rivers, Mountain

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Feelings, Woods

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• Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra) I know. You’ve told me that enough that it’s permanently seared into my brain. Still, he’s a part of me and I’d like to have closure. (Medea) You really need to stop watching Oprah. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Brain, Needs

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• Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday."

  Shane Claiborne

  Monday, Sunday, Men

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing the prospect of leaving the euro zone and many Greeks felt abandoned by Europe. In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to me to present myself as a friend to Greece. It had to do with the country's dignity.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

  David Gilmour

  Names, Yesterday, Rocks

  "David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It’s a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.

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• When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Summer, College, Editors

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• Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Looks, Push Yourself

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• The Democrat Party has had a friendly, supportive relationship with every communist regime on this planet in my lifetime. And now all of a sudden their buddies, the Soviets, i.e., Putin and the Russians, have abandoned them and are now sabotaging them for the purpose of election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Supportive, Friendly

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Self, Patriarchy

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• In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Past, Wish

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Working Together, Succeed

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

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• Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Stars, The End Of The Day, Trying

  "Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messenger". Interview with Eugene Holley, Jr., www.ebony.com. September 4, 2012.

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• As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Numbers, Effort

  "'I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy'". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Useless

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• I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

  Joan Didion

  Adoption, Problem, Solve

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

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• I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced it is not the normal human condition. We shall be sorry to have abandoned a little too quickly the institutions that were set up by our parents and grandparents to protect themselves against a return of the bad old world. Because the bad old world can still come back to haunt you.

  Tony Judt

  Sorry, Grandparent, Worry

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.

  Andre Vltchek

  Struggle, Winning, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Ends, Process

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Thinking, Law

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Jun 23, 2016

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