Abandoned Quotes - Page 16

• I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

  Luke Ford

  Religious, Way, Months

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• When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Years, Law, Atheism

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.29

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
  Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
  Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
  Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
  Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
  Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
  Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?

  Antwone Fisher

  Hurt, Pain, Sleep

  "Antwone Fisher". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Believe, Culture, Earth

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• Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear

  Peter Weiss

  Long Ago, Years, Dungeons

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.98, A&C Black

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Eight, Years, Diners

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Girl, Fighting, Israel

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• Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, Degrees, Wildflowers

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

  Regina Brett

  Daughter, Hurt, Dad

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• Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

  Richard Schickel

  Children, Character, Wife

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• After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.

  Joe Bastianich

  War, Cities, People

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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• Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Night, Burning

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Mad

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

  Frank Abagnale

  Men, Doors, Years

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2002.

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• Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Men, Our World

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

  Erik Erikson

  Generations, Sequence, Loses

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, Years

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Names, Middle East, Desert

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

  John Piper

  Darkness, Betrayed, Hours

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• My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

  Mark Webber

  Mother, Sleep, Abandoned Buildings

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