Quotes with abandoned

Quotes 21 till 28 of 28.

  • Seneca That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • W. H. Auden 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.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • B. F. Skinner The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • David Hare The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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