Quotes About Abandon

A social democracy of fear is something to fight for. To abandon the labors of a century is to betray those who came before us as well as generations yet to come. It would be pleasing—but misleading—to report that social democracy, or something like it, represents the future that we would paint for ourselves in an ideal world. It does not even represent the ideal past. But among the options available to us in the present, it is better than anything else to hand.

She knew the difference between fact and fiction, but she couldn't abandon her love stories.

I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?

It used to be that he, John, had too little employment. Now that is about to change. Now he will have as much employment as he can handle, as much and more. He is going to have to abandon some of his personal projects and be a nurse. Alternatively, if he will not be a nurse, he must announce to his father: I cannot face the prospect of ministering to you day and night. I am going to abandon you. Goodbye. One or the other: there is no third way.

The discipline of war was a near neighbor to the abandon of love.

Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.

But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly.

Each of us has a terrorist inside, a mad impulse to abandon that which is rightfully ours, to blow ourselves to smithereens. You cannot outsmart it, for it has hijacked the mind that you use. It believes it is you; you believe you are it.

But Seehund hurled his love at her, his entire body. It was a love she recognized—she'd felt it within herself but had never been able to demonstrate it with such abandon.

Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there.

Why didn't you wake me up?' 'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.' Clary's hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.' 'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.

Perhaps it was pride, merely, to seek these souls that God had chosen to abandon. Perhaps it was in itself a sin….

Lasciatemi così come una cosa posata in un angolo e dimenticata

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

O'Connor packed up

The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?