Quotes and Sayings About Abandon
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Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
-- Amy Lee -
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
-- Bede Griffiths -
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
-- Bono -
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
-- Carl Whitaker -
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
-- Claude DebussySource : "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy". Book by Simon Trezise, 2003.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
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Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
-- David Dreman -
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
-- David Eagleman -
Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
-- DeVon FranklinSource : DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
-- Edmund Burke -
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
-- Ernest GellnerSource : Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”
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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.
-- Ernst Mach -
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
-- Gustav Mahler -
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
-- Hans KungSource : Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).
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Lost are only those who abandon themselves.
-- Hans-Ulrich Rudel -
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
-- Irving StoneSource : Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
-- Jim Butcher -
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
-- Jock Sturges -
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
-- John Bartholomew Gough -
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
-- John Steinbeck -
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Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.
-- Jolene BlalockSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.
-- Junsu