Abandoned Quotes - Page 9

• Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.

  Bill Whittle

  Beautiful, Heart, Glasses

  "Trinity (part 2)". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, July 4, 2003.

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• Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

  Richard A. Falk

  Doe, Labels, Use

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Age, And Love, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

  Teresa Medeiros

  Blessed, Knows

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• Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Fate, Birth, Genre

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• I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice..." I don't think I've ever abandoned one... the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Hipster, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Tales of the Otherworld”, p.49, Bantam

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong Women, Wife, Forgiving

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• But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  People, Black, Stories

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Wind, Earth

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• And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Unhappy, Fortresses

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.75, Delphi Classics

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• I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Fun, Spring

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• There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

  Ilona Andrews

  Secret, Promise, Deities

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.193, Penguin

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• THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

  Jack Gilbert

  Night, Long, Buckets

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.235, Knopf

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• We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

  Alice Hoffman

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Trying

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

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• With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori’s mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I’d never “brained” anyone in my life, but with Tori’s mom, I was willing to try.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Wall, Opportunity

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Looks, Sake

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• The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

  Richelle Mead

  Lasts, Guardian, Ifs

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

  Nicole Krauss

  Loneliness, Dark, Past

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.129, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries. I feel that feminism is abandoned like a product that was a craze in the past.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Past, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

  Walter Cunningham

  Acceptance, Rejection, Groups

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• Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Knives, Violence

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