Quotes with abandon

  • By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
  • The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

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  • Ashleigh Brilliant By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Marshall Pugh Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Aaliyah I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Anita Hill I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bram Fischer If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • Bill Haslam If we abandon our values by completely shutting our doors to those who seek the freedom we enjoy or mistreating our neighbors who made it here after enduring unimaginable hardships, the terrorists win.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Graham Greene 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?
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Emile Wiechert So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Napoleon The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bill Kurtis There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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