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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.
My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.
Recently abandoned women can be complicated. — © Elizabeth Kostova
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!
I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. — © Dalai Lama
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God
When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
Love can be put off, never abandoned.
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways, abandoned theme parks. To me, those are most interesting kinds of things to capture.
We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
I can hear them on the floor below. They will find me in miuntes, or seconds. I scrawl the words on a dirty shred of newsprint. They are nearly illegible, but if he finds them, he will understand: 'Not fast enough. Love you love Jamie. Don't go home' Not only do I break their hearts, I steal their refuge, too. I picture our little canyon abandoned, as it must be forever now. Or if not abandoned, a tomb.
What abandoned course is that?
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
My computer is littered with abandoned projects.
I've never abandoned the novel.
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. — © David Whyte
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.
Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. — © Halle Berry
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!
Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.
Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.
Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
Many times, though, when people feel as if The Uni-verse has abandoned them, the truth is that they have abandoned their dreams, and as a result they have abandoned The Uni-verse. What we think is being done TO US, we are actually doing TO ourselves. It's a totally crazy reversal that is true most of the time.
Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we have a constitution that limits the power of the federal government to a few specific, but important things and we have abandoned that. We have abandoned it in both political parties.
I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.
Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.
When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.
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