Abandon Quotes

#1. To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#2. In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the most loyal man you'll ever meet.

Rhys Ifans

#3. The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.

Philip Zaleski

#4. Laughter is soul making, too. No matter how dark and serious a crisis seems, I shouldn't abandon my joy.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. Nocta Hemata. The Night of Passion. The Night of Abandon.

Brent Weeks

#6. Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

Michael Chabon

#7. I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Theodore Dalrymple

#9. For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

Philip Yancey

#10. I don't feel as strong today as I do on other days, but I know Your strength will prevail in my weakness. The enemy is always trying to fill me with fear and doubt and make me abandon this mission. Help me ignore the lies and have courage to go on each day

Molly Evangeline

#11. If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset ("what can the world offer me?") and instead adopt the craftsman mindset ("what can I offer the world?").

Cal Newport

#12. Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois

#13. Cimil's eyes lit. "The Niccolo DiConti? What an honor!" Niccolo stood a little taller then. "Yes, I seek your assistance." Cimil rolled her eyes. "Well, no duh. You didn't abandon your queen's side, risking her wrath, to see me in my fabulous birthday suit.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#15. I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. And he saw the studio he was about to abandon for his bed as it might have appeared in a documentary film about himself that would reveal to a curious world how a masterpiece was born.

Ian McEwan

#17. An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

Paulo Coelho

#18. The greater koa finch, an innocuous member of the honeycreeper family, lurked shyly in the canopies of koa trees, but if someone imitated its song it would abandon its cover at once and fly down in a show of welcome.

Bill Bryson

#19. Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"
"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Maggie Osborne

#20. There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. Impotence in prayer leads us, however unwillingly, to strike a truce with evil. When you accept what is, you abandon a Christian view of God and His plan for redemptive history.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Timothy Keller

#23. In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

Fran Lebowitz

#25. If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

Harriet Quimby

#26. Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

Bill Nye

#27. I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.

Marcel Duchamp

#28. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

John Shelby Spong

#29. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Victor Hugo

#30. The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Oswald Chambers

#31. When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

Javier Bardem

#32. I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

David Crabb

#33. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.

Ian McEwan

#34. Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!

Darwun St. James

#35. To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

#36. [I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality ... (20)

Ravi Ravindra

#37. During December we are all ingesting, imbibing, and spending with a reckless abandon like a bachelor party on a guilt-free boondoggle. Everyone has the unspoken agreement that what happens in December stays in December.

Jim Gaffigan

#38. Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#39. The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

Ellen G. White

#40. You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do.

Reki Kawahara

#41. Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

John Milton

#42. The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

Michael Lesy

#43. As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#44. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Kenan Malik

#45. Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures - I wish no more than this, O Lord."6

Richard J. Foster

#46. He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.

Irving Stone

#47. Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Laozi

#48. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Alain Badiou

#49. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Frank Herbert

#50. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.

Paul Heyman

#51. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.

Umberto Eco

#52. Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Naguib Mahfouz

#53. Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

Joseph Stalin

#54. What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

John McCain

#55. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Oswald Chambers

#56. There is something you despise, so you narrow your minds into only accepting the direct opposite. Instead of making an attempt to walk down any of the other near limitless paths of spirit, you choose to abandon them all because of a hatred for one.

Dylan Doose

#57. Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered the station wagon of scepticism.

Salman Rushdie

#58. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Carlos Castaneda

#59. Yet she couldn't deny how tempting it was to abandon the plan, to forget patience, to try to end it here, now

Marissa Meyer

#60. Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Nat Wolff

#61. I stepped inside, closed the door, and locked it behind me. Then I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg.

Ernest Cline

#62. Here's to adrenaline.
Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol.
Here's to treasured pain and purple rain.
Here's to chasing our souls,

burning across to sky.

Here's to drinking the ash as it falls,
and not asking why.

Virginia Petrucci

#63. Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity ...

Wayland Drew

#64. While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

John F. Kennedy

#65. Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more ... It can completely twist you ... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

Kangana Ranaut

#66. Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Epicurus

#67. Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

Benjamin Banneker

#68. She laced her arms around his neck. "Are you hungry, Azhar?"
His smile made her blood fizz. "Ravenous, Julia."
"Then please, abandon any attempt at controlling your appetite for me," she whispered into his ear, "Because I too am starving.

Marguerite Kaye

#69. The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

John Calvin

#70. Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

Ibn Ata Allah

#71. Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others' goods, and people will love you.

Ibn Majah

#72. And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#73. You'll abandon me?
Who will
then see
the attire of my nakedness
in which I appear
truly
beautiful?

Maram Al-Masri

#74. [f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive expression to abandon.

Lionel Shriver

#75. God is alive and faithful to make something beautiful out of us...God won't abandon us...He's going to replenish it all. He's carrying us in his arms, no matter how bruised or broken we feel. He's planting beautiful seed for our journey - seed that's thriving even among the barren months.

Bonnie Gray

#76. I cannot simply abandon a comrade

Sawada Tsunayoshi

#77. Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

William Symington

#78. The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

George Washington

#79. O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#80. He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

Shannon Hale

#81. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

Sally Brampton

#82. There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

Margaret Mahy

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

Larry Crabb

#84. All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness
Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you.
All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health,
Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you ...

Rumi

#85. Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#86. In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.

William Stolzenburg

#87. When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Gwen Moore

#88. I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

Dorothy Stang

#89. We don't have to know everything. If you believe in fate and some kind of meaning and sense in this fucked-up world, then believe with abandon, love. Enjoy it.

Jessica Park

#90. Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

Claude C. Hopkins

#91. In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Pope Francis

#92. How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives.

Larissa Lai

#93. The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

Marvin Bell

#94. If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Belva Lockwood

#95. When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Ayn Rand

#96. More than a fifth of internet users will abandon an online video if it takes longer than five seconds to load.

Anonymous

#97. The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.

William Thompson

#98. This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

Joel Salatin

#99. STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

Peter Capaldi

#100. The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken ... Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

Nicolaus Copernicus