Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Topics
Authors
Professions
Quote of The Day
Picture Quotes
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Abandon Quotes - Page 6
Menu
Grid View
List View
Quote of the Day
Picture Quotes
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes
Top 100 Love Quotes
Top 100 Happiness Quotes
Popular Authors
Epictetus
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Sowell
Steve Jobs
Vincent Van Gogh
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barack Obama
Napoleon Bonaparte
John F. Kennedy
Aristotle
Popular Topics
Respect
Learning
Quality
Health
Men
Cute
Nike
Ocean
Movie
Encouraging
People abandon you because they can't handle the depth and complexity of your experience, and that is ultimately a gift. It shows you what is important, who is important, and who is really, truly in your corner.
Zoe Buckman
/
Abandon
Complexity
Depth
Handle
Corner
Truly
Ultimately
Copy Quote
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
/
Baritone
Age
Chance
Abandon
Careful
Collapse
Good Chance
Work Good Age
Drift
Particularly
Reach
Copy Quote
There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!
Sebastian Thrun
/
Educator
Abandon
Recurring
Excessive
Implement
Meeting
Copy Quote
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
Nate Parker
/
Actor
Abandon
Identifying
Majority
Reckless
Self
Strive
Inferior
Lesser
Sadly
Copy Quote
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
Barbara Deming
/
Abandon
Familiar
Vision
Adopt
Choice
Concept
Enable
Enemies
Naming
Nonviolent
Oppressive
Copy Quote
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
/
Painter
Abandon
Instruments
Law
Copy Quote
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
/
Philosopher
Abandon
Facts
Generosity
Giving
Higher
Gives
Manner
Object
Possess
Copy Quote
When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.
Jeff Bezos
/
Entrepreneur
Abandon
Long Time
Vicinity
Time Long People
Altogether
Anyway
Colonies
Few People
Copy Quote
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim
/
Author
Abandon
Country
Customs
Heritage
Resources
Skills
Treasure
Adapt
Enrich
Possess
Copy Quote
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
Veronica Roth
/
Novelist
Abandon
High Ground
Judgmental
Moral High Ground
Stressed
Teenager
Myself Me Pressure
Finding
Grown
Copy Quote
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.
Stephen Kinzer
/
Author
Abandon
Compromise
Embrace
Humility
Ruthless
Tolerance
Opposite
Wars
Guerrilla
None
Qualities
Copy Quote
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom
/
Literary Critic
Abandon
Alleviate
Classes
Economically
Exploited
Sufferings
Copy Quote
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
/
Philosopher
Abandon
Abstract
Critique
Ethics
Hegel
My Own
No Regrets
Regret
Understanding
Appear
Characterized
Correctly
Indeed
Regrets
Copy Quote
When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.
Clayton M. Christensen
/
Abandon
Profitable
Rational
Attacks
Defend
Incumbent
Investments
Low
Copy Quote
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
Kazuo Ishiguro
/
Novelist
Boyfriend
Abandon
Concerned
Intimidated
Reputation
Critic
Savage
Copy Quote
I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality a little bit and go for that. I'm not a documentarian. We're not trying to shoot things for naturalism.
Sam Esmail
/
Abandon
Logic
Naturalism
Suspend
Copy Quote
I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
Isaac Marion
/
Writer
Abandon
Book
Gallery
Giving
My Time
Writing
Time Work Music
Shot
Work Time Music
Quit
Split
Copy Quote
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
Francesca Lia Block
/
Writer
Abandon
Add
Character
Conflict
Constraints
Cutting
Files
What You Love
Writing
Afraid
Brutally
Cut
Draft
Save
Second
Suffer
Copy Quote
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
Rene Girard
/
Abandon
Conform
Imitating
Links
Oneself
Salvation
Silence
Withdrawal
In Other Words
Copy Quote
The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Dan Crenshaw
/
Abandon
Allies
Turkish
Syrian
Copy Quote
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
/
Professional Wrestling Manager
Abandon
Passion
Reckless
Copy Quote
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Al Goldstein
/
Publisher
New York
Abandon
Amsterdam
Dying
Florida
Furniture
Son
Taken
Underwear
Good Wife Your
Bank
Piece
Copy Quote
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Marguerite Young
/
Poet
Abandon
Book
Drunkards
Poetic
Prose
Real
Realism
Realistic
Surreal
Writing
People Never Real
Forth
Weave
Copy Quote
There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn
/
Soccer Player
Abandon
Compact
No Reason
Beat
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Copy Quote
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean
/
Journalist
Abandon
Disappear
Fingers
Impossible
Photograph
Rational
Release
Sensible
Trying
Photographs
Drop
Throw
Time And Time
Wastebasket
Copy Quote
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
Evgeny Morozov
/
Writer
Abandon
Answers
Needs
People
Privacy
Public Good
Urgent
Good Start People
Carelessly
Commons
Depleted
Eagerly
Too Many People
Copy Quote
Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights and did a lot of things right to move up the rankings and I have to abandon all that moving to 155 starting fresh.
Dustin Poirier
/
Mixed Martial Artist
Abandon
Fights
Sucks
Fought
Copy Quote
There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
Hanya Yanagihara
/
Abandon
Too Late
Life Your Way
Copy Quote
There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
Sam Hunt
/
Abandon
Perception
Element
Intentionally
Copy Quote
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton
/
Chess Master
Anger
Abandon
Decision
Games
Offensive
Player
Quitting
Resigning
Manner
Momentarily
Otherwise
Refuses
Table
Umpire
Copy Quote
I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.
Oscar Arias
/
Former President Of Costa Rica
Abandon
Justify
Liberty
Path
Tragedy
Accept
Different World
Shall
Copy Quote
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
Daniel Alarcon
/
Author
Abandon
Peru
Population
Uncertainty
Emigrate
Foreign Land
Copy Quote
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Henry Villard
/
Abandon
Controlled
Enemy
Formal
Impulse
Officers
Retreat
Orders
Several
Yielded
Copy Quote
I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
F. W. De Klerk
/
Abandon
Apartheid
Book
Discrimination
Equal
Equal Rights
Rights
South
South Africa
United
Vision
Accept
Africa
Played
Forms
Part
Integral
Integral Part
Copy Quote
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
Bede Griffiths
/
Monk
Abandon
Children
Giving Up
Mother
One Thing
Ready
Material
The One Thing
Unconditionally
Copy Quote
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen
/
Economist
Abandon
Chaos
Collapse
Country
Euro
Germany
Greece
Spain
Threatening
Wrath
Consequences
Neighbours
Trigger
Copy Quote
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
/
Author
Abandon
Everyday
Everyday Life
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Retreat
Seems
Life Time Space
Writer
Certainly
Characters
Life Space Time
He Or She
Space And Time
Copy Quote
In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.
Lu Wei
/
Respect
Abandon
Cyberspace
Development
Differences
Entitled
Free Speech
Participation
Speech
Skin
Open
Languages
Colors
Cultures
Equally
Prejudices
Tolerant
Copy Quote
America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.
Dennis Prager
/
Radio Host
Abandon
America
Believe
Individual Liberty
Islamic
Liberty
Muhammad
Nurture
Copy Quote
By protecting our Afghan friends from reprisals and welcoming them into our American family, we can assert that the United States is still a great and good country - and that we do not abandon those who risked their lives to serve with us.
Jeanne Shaheen
/
United States Senator
Abandon
Afghan
American Family
Family Good Great
Assert
Protecting
Risked
Welcoming
Copy Quote
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
Lauryn Hill
/
Singer-Songwriter
Abandon
Fans
Individual
Inherent
Responsibility
Damaging
Deliberately
Distorting
Limitations
Nor
Responsibilities
Restrictions
Copy Quote
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.
Sylvia Plath
/
Poet
Abandon
Bits
Borders
China
Matched
Patterns
Sea
Tea
Collected
Dozens
Sets
Swallowed
Tide
Tossed
Copy Quote
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
Howard Gardner
/
Psychologist
Abandon
Caught
Chaotic
Concern
Deny
Hands
Importance
Lying
Remains
Would Be
Totally
False
Hand
Jump
Quick
Copy Quote
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke
/
Film Writer
Inspirational
Men
Abandon
Educational
Half
Schooling
Youth
Discovered
Longer
Restricted
Copy Quote
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
John Shelby Spong
/
Author
Abandon
Antichrist
Literal
Moon
Patterns
People
Plenty
Thinking
Affirm
Beyond
Fly
Incarnate
To The Moon
Copy Quote
I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.
Marion Cotillard
/
Actress
Abandon
No Idea
Almost Every Day
Enter
Lady
Macbeth
Oh My God
Copy Quote
I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
Laura Amy Schlitz
/
Author
Abandon
Heat
Wind
Flavors
Haunt
Picking
Copy Quote
Most of the time, women believe that what lies ahead is a precipice. Whereas, if you continue to drive and stay on the path, the road will open up in front of you, and you will reach your destination. You don't need to turn around and abandon the journey.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
/
Journey
Abandon
Destination
Path
Precipice
Ahead
Drive
Open
Stay
Front
Lies
Reach
Whereas
Copy Quote
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
Marcel Duchamp
/
Painter
Abandon
Decided
Elements
Introducing
Munich
Painting
Pictorial
Pure
Sake
Alien
Asked
Dead
Dead End
Returned
Copy Quote
Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love.
Juan Gabriel
/
Singer
Abandon
Absolutely Nothing
Orphanage
Love World Your
Love World Children
Counsel
Mothers
Sent
Copy Quote
‹ Prev
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Next ›
Stay Connected
facebook
twitter
pinterest
instragram
Picture Quotes Maker
Make Your Picture Quotes, Download and Share
Popular Topic Tags
Good
I Miss You
Kids
Education
History
Jobs
Dance
Strength
60th Birthday
Sports
Depression
Happy
Imagination
Zinc
Encouragement
Patience
Notebook
Design
Thank You
Learning
Share This Page
