Abandon Quotes

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

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.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

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.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

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.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

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.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.