Abandoned Quotes - Page 13

• The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

  Don DeLillo

  World, Unexpected, Intensity

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Flower, Land, Long

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

  Craig Silvey

  World, Paper, Weight

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• America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

  Joseph Losey

  Strong Women, America, Spirituality

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• Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Painting, Monet, Figures

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• It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Benefits, Melancholy

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.92

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• No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

  Dan Simmons

  Book, Finished

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.251, Spectra

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• I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Character, Buddhism, Thinking

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The Kurds' achievement was outstanding, both militarily and diplomatically. European governments recognized this and abandoned their resistance to weapons deliveries. Germany, too, acted correctly. Now, we need a joint military leadership so that the Kurds and the army can retake Mosul.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Military, Army, Achievement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Law, Criticism

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• I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Wind, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Government, Views

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• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wall, Suffering, Age

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• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, America, Order

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter V, 1835.

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• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Ideas, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

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• The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loneliness, Men, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Mermaid, Morbid

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• The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, Moments, Turns

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• Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

  Fred Brooks

  Dissertation, Finished

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• I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ideas, Years, Decision

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show him an alternative, but he was still going to stick by his particular view. But I could see how to women he could be a very charming, good-looking guy, especially when he was younger.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Witty, Children

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• I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

  Mercury Morris

  Football, Kids, Principles

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, Half, May

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Spiritual, Mars, Occupation

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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