- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abandoned Quotes
On unfinished work and the choice to set it aside.
Not every abandoned project ends badly. A filmmaker unhappy with how a movie wrapped can still watch it find an audience, and a cluttered hard drive full of half-built ideas is a familiar feeling for anyone who creates. This page gathers quotes on that theme. Compare with Like quotes nearby.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
- Exchanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
- Jesus Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.
- Economic Policies
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put the brakes on government planning and ushered in a new free-market supply-side era and a two-decade boom. That model has been abandoned in the new century. This must be reversed.
- Camels
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- Nov 07, 2020