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- Nov 07, 2020
Abandon Quotes
Quotes on walking away, and refusing to.
Abandon carries several meanings across this set: a stated refusal to walk away from a commitment, a historical account of shifting manufacturing priorities, and a personal vow to stop giving up on one's own needs to please others. Growth is a quiet thread running through all of them.
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Appease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020