Quotes About Abandoned

Helen didn't hold back. "I told your father that Paul was like a hermit crab. They're scavengers. They don't have the ability to make their own shells, so they cast around until they find abandoned shells, and then they move in.

But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

shack first appeared well in the distance, a listing structure marooned by time. It was a mere ghost of what it once had been, and what it once had been was nothing much. She stopped the car, checked her odometer, looked at the building. A single black line ran from the electric wires to the

If we really want to understand the origins of the modern world economy, the place to start is not in Europe at all. The real story is of how China abandoned the use of paper money.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

The little broken doll was no more.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.

Cresington Lane, There's an old public toilet with an old broken

It was totally empty, not a soul left at all,

I'm haunted. We all are, I guess. We're parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them — unable to speak — our histories written in beach sand.

The emperor, chosen by the Roman senate, who had been promoted, degraded, insulted, restored, again degraded, and again insulted, was finally abandoned to his fate; but when the Gothic king withdrew his protection, he was restrained, by pity or contempt, from offering any violence to the person of Attalus.

So my brain is as stuffed as some old broken-down Commodore you see left in the bush.

We cannot leave the Central Africans abandoned. Everyone needs to be mobilized to help this country build a future that Central Africans deserve.

He tried his hand at doing some research on the psychology of the stock market, but grew frustrated with the reactions he got from the referees at mainstream finance and economics journals and eventually abandoned the research program.

He is no longer the man imprisoned by all the wrong answers at the end of his interrupted life. All at once my father is a child, as uncertain, terrified, and abandoned to the terrible abundance of being alive as I am.

It was not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned. - Antheil

That abandoned house, With its yard of fallen leaves, In the setting sun.

I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids. It's got four thousand attack power, I coaxed. Five thousand, Nico corrected. But only if your opponent attacks first. I smiled. Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while.

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)