Abandoned Quotes Best



  • If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

  • Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

  • When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

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

  • An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

  • This little kid who was found abandoned in the ocean brought a face to the people who were in Miami- a face that showed hatred, a face that showed ignorance, a face that showed they had no respect at all for the things that Americans believed in,. (Quote by - Charles Rangel)

  • The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. (Quote by - Thomas Griffith)

  • A poem is never finished, only abandoned. (Quote by - Paul Valery)

  • The shelter was an abandoned Wal-mart. Another shelter I worked in was a former textile factory. (Quote by - Dr. Josephine Beebe)

  • I don't know if they'll ever get their act together. I don't think they can. I think there's too much violence in the country, too much division, too much pressure on the courtThe project ought to be abandoned. (Quote by - Ramsey Clark)

  • Different project that I abandoned. And I almost did the Phil Spector story there for a while. (Quote by - Ridley Scott)

  • I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes. (Quote by - Paul Simon)

  • Arabs cross to collect the grain that they left in the abandoned villages and we set mines for them and they go back without an arm or a leg. (Quote by - Moshe Dayan)

  • Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me. (Quote by - Charles Thomas)

  • Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity. (Quote by - Demetrius)

  • It's an open question whether Bolton's throwing all the cards up in the air is meant to improve the council or to prove that the U.N. can't reform itself and therefore should be abandoned. (Quote by - Kenneth Roth)

  • He has not abandoned his previous residence. (Quote by - Larry Leake)

  • Latinos are children of la rumba, When people play drums it gets our attention right away. When we saw that, we realized there wasn't so much interest in hip-hop here anymore. We started to incorporate the ideas we had doing hip-hop with the base of dancehall and reggae en Espa ol. (Quote by - Daddy Yankee)

  • In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)

  • I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

  • I believe this is the fourth year we've been doing it. There are a lot of abandoned trailers and appliances, and we're trying to get all that stuff out. People had hunting camps and fishing camps on those lots. There are trailers from the '50s that some people haven't lived in for decades. (Quote by - Linda Derry)

  • Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved. (Quote by - Clayton Cramer)

  • We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success. (Quote by - Paul Farmer)

  • Authentic treachery is found when we abandon ourselves, becoming deaf to the whispers of our spirits and blind to the powerful potential therein. (Quote by - Joaquin Mariel Espinosa)

  • I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,. (Quote by - Abdoulaye Wade)



  • I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' [Internet service providers'] view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wron It's not the ISP's to sell. (Quote by - Cindy Cohn)

  • I don't think it's fair to say that the city abandoned its volunteer program. (Quote by - Jeff Hecksel)

  • For the first time in my life, I am truly angry with my local government. Unfortunately my feelings are ones of frustration, hopelessness and feelings that those of us who have lived in the county and made our home here are being abandoned. (Quote by - Janet Johnson)

  • What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time. (Quote by - Chinua Achebe)

  • Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. (Quote by - Arthur Henderson)

  • Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters. But, united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. (Quote by - Francisco De Goya)

  • He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

  • This amounts to a declaration that the zero interest rate policy could be abandoned at any time. (Quote by - Takehiro Sato)

  • I don't understand why a law enforcement agency that has abandoned the use of the application of chemical agents on nonviolent protesters for seven years needs to litigate this issue in pursuit of a judgment that will essentially void the jury's decision and give local law enforcement agencies free rein to use pepper spray when none is needed in light of the 100 percent success rates since abandoning the use of pepper spray. (Quote by - Gordon Kaupp)

  • The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. (Quote by - W H Auden)

  • Fifty-two is unacceptable. We've had too many kids who have been abandoned. Moms don't know they can take the child to a hospitalno questions asked. (Quote by - Marianne Udow)

  • I s just overwhelming, There are countless thousands of abandoned pets in the city. And hundreds and hundreds are stuck inside their homes. (Quote by - Laura Maloney)

  • At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned. (Quote by - Georges Jacques Danton)

  • I perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. (Quote by - Georges Jacques Danton)

  • Detroit's the city everybody likes to look at as a place that's dangerous, abandoned and economically no longer viable. It's the most famous failed city in the United States. (Quote by - Jerry Herron)

  • If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. (Quote by - Jack Handy)

  • He found an abandoned fort along the river, some wood, nails and an orange grove and moved his family from Key West to the officer's quarters. (Quote by - William Hanson)

  • We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks. (Quote by - Richard Dickson)

  • At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)

  • Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)

  • I do not believe that anyone can recall the last time a complaint prevailed under Section 18. It has long been abandoned as a resource. (Quote by - Harvey Pitt)

  • I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?. (Quote by - Jim Armstrong)

  • I do not want to hide my personal fear- that the superpower isolates itself and remains isolated even in dealing with the disaster,In this dramatic emergency, the United States must not be abandoned. (Quote by - Paul Cordes)

  • Every day, bureaus hear from consumers who invested in what they thought were solid and sure money-makers. They abandoned their common sense and succumbed to enticing promotions that were short on details but full of dollar signs. (Quote by - Steve Cole)

  • The putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes. (Quote by - Hale Irwin)





  • Her remarks have made it clear that the Canadian government has abandoned Kyoto. This government was afraid of the oil industry and decided to back off. (Quote by - John Bennett)

  • 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. (Quote by - Dorothy Stang)

  • Despite the happy outcome, we ask ourselves about the causes of this incident that targeted Egypt, which has never abandoned the righteous cause of the Palestinian people. (Quote by - Suleiman Awad)

  • He aired documentaries on weighty subjects at a time when CBS, NBC and ABC had largely abandoned them,kept his team in Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, even though all the other networks pulled theirs out. (Quote by - Ken Auletta)

  • If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

  • Due to urbanization, a lot of the wells have been abandoned. In the 1950s, there were 500,000 acre-feet of water reserves, now there are only 300,000 acre-feet. We are looking to return to our historical capacity. (Quote by - Scott Harelson)

  • The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. (Quote by - Peter McWilliams)

  • Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)

  • At the end of the day, what my folks did to try to rescue these folks was nothing short of 100 percent heroic. The idea that the owners abandoned these folks is absolutely not true. (Quote by - Jim Cobb)

  • Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. (Quote by - Livy)

  • I do not believe the press is guilty of the charge that it abandoned its healthy skepticism in Iraq , and I would hate to see it draw the inference from New Orleans that 'in your face' journalism is the panacea for restoring our lost credibility. (Quote by - Bob Zelnick)

  • When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. (Quote by - Confucius)

  • I am so peed off with the game and I am bored with it. I would rather be planting a few shrubs in the garden. Hopefully the match gets abandoned and maybe John Virgo and Willie Thorne come out and play a few trick shots. I really don't care. (Quote by - Ronnie O'Sullivan)

  • I felt abandoned. There wasn't anybody doing nothing. (Quote by - Mike Johnson)

  • In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain. (Quote by - Arbit Blatas)

  • Despite critical reports and investigative hearings of government failures, despite the flurry of commitments to confront poverty in the U.S. -- six months after Katrina, little has changed. It's unconscionable that the same vulnerable people abandoned in the height of the storm could again be neglected in the recovery. There are still thousands of people who don't have a place to live and don't have answers to the most basic questions about their futures in the Gulf Coast. (Quote by - Minor Sinclair)

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