Abandoned Quotations

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

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.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

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.

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

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?

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

Somebody left their dog prior to the storm tied to a boat. It's just unbelievable. Here's a dog, abandoned for a week with no food, no water and tied to boat.

Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Victorian mansion that was the first location of the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles, which Morris helped to found.

Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.

Nothing in the arguments made by the university should be interpreted as a suggestion that Penn State has abandoned its policy regarding affirmative action and nondiscrimination.

I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,

I grew up in a very loving two-parent household in the middle of one of the worst ghettos in New York City, ... I didn't know I lived in the ghetto until I was like 20, 19. I came to LA with Eddie Murphy and stayed at hotels and all this stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared. I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and had crack heads.

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.

Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.

Most people really don't want to give up abandoned cars. Really, we don't take them away from them.

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

She is an example of what we see everyday in southwest Florida, animals abandoned and neglected.

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

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.

Kids are going to be kids, and if there is a backlash against either rave promoters or venues, we're going to be much less safer for it. These promoters know the limitations with which they can put on events in town. Kids are going to do this, either in an abandoned factory or in a venue where you have access to paramedics and police officers and security.

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

(Friday), 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.

If you abandoned yourself to that world and that character and that period surrounded by extras in the same period clothing and costumes and listening to that music all the time, you give in and you let that music become a part of your soul. Then you can live it and breathe it, which is really what I was trying to do.

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.

I don't know what the deal was, but we abandoned the run. We abandoned the run -- I don't know what it was. I can't sit here and tell you it was because of the fumbles or it wasn't, but for whatever reason it was, we abandoned the run. I think when we get to go out there and execute our game plan it's hard to beat us. Every time we become one-dimensional we end up losing.

Because they (NASA) had abandoned the military style of command and gone to a corporate style, they lost the ability to have clear communication. It (Challenger disaster) is a great lesson in organizational structure and how to achieve high-risk goals.

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.

We've got to see beyond pork. We've got to do what's best for the planet. Instead of lobbying for nuclear missiles, we've got to resuscitate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that was abandoned (in 2005) largely due to opposition from the United States, Iran and Egypt.

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.

What we've learned from the British experience is that if people are admonished to notify authorities of suspicious activity or abandoned parcels, if you then readily have communications systems for them to do that -- telephones that are marked -- and you provide rapid response when reports are made, then in effect you have closed the loop.

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

I abandoned fiction for playwriting then for a number of years before taking it up again to write The Beautiful Room Is Empty in the mid-1960s.

The purpose of the program is to remove vacant and abandoned structures. In all of these cases, the abandoned houses are usually fire hazards, where drugs are dealt or are a harbor for juveniles.

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,

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Many experts who were involved in that process nearly 30 years ago are convinced that the project the corps abandoned because of the environmentalist lawsuit, in all likelihood, would have saved New Orleans,

Marcel needs maybe two or three training sessions to be operational for 90 minutes, but he has not abandoned the idea of playing (in the competition).

Jenna was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage when she was 11 days old, and she was never in danger because she was found immediately.

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

I think that if you get caught the third time, I mean that's real bad, you should get abandoned from the game. You shouldn't be able to be caught the third time because after the first time, if you don't learn from that, from 50 games that you sit down without getting paid, that's pretty bad.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. They didn't want to see good things happen to me.

It appears the White House has abandoned the idea of taxing broadcasters billions in 'analog TV spectrum fees' and instead has given its blessing to the budget reconciliation bill as the means by which to raise billions in revenue (go to the last paragraph in bold). You will recall that each White House budget submitted for the last 10 years or so has included spectrum tax provisions in the billions that would target TV broadcasters.

I wasn't even the ham in the sandwich. I was just dragged out of the sandwich, abandoned by left and right!

We were staying in an abandoned hotel with no water, no lights, no food and kids, ... There were all kinds of dead stuff floating in the water. The water was black, stinking and greasy.

will provide a greater test over a longer period of the extent to which the Provisional movement (Sinn Fein and the IRA) has abandoned criminality in all its forms.

Most analysts are on record with expectations of a decline in corn planting intentions and an increase in intentions for soybeans. The debate generally centers on the magnitude of the changes. Acreage of spring-planted crops, however, could deviate from intentions due to escalating spring wheat prices; potential for abandoned hard red winter wheat acreage to be replanted to other crops; changes, if any, in price relationships of spring-planted crops; and spring weather conditions.

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.

We came out with the game plan to go inside and have defensive intensity. And about midway through the second quarter, we abandoned the game plan.

When it comes to major issues on a statewide or national level, the Democrats in these small counties probably feel abandoned by the Democrat Party. These are folks who go to church on Sunday morning and have strong conservative values. The Democrats on the state and federal levels don't relate to that.

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

Why weren't we contacted first when they abandoned their plans (to use the land)?

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

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.

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.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.

When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online?

The demolition of these vacant and abandoned buildings sends a clear message to all of our residents that Plainfield is on the move to become the Queen City once again,

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

We're turning an abandoned space into attractive space. With this project, we've gotten in and started.

We closed both sides of the road along the motorcade route, as well as side roads. The Secret Service made us tow any abandoned vehicles. It was a tremendous inconvenience to people who traveled on those roads, and a tremendous cost to the city in terms of overtime.

We have been abandoned by our own country.

We have been abandoned by our own country. And he said, 'Yeah, mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night.

We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.