Abandonment Quotes

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Heart, Matter

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins

Destiny, Hatred, Matter

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn

Best, Children, Service

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

Nature, Hate, Human

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Jonathan Sacks

Society, Revolution, Moral

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.
Patti Stanger

Love, Time, Long

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides

Law, Perfect, Far

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
Kenny Loggins

Mother, Father, Before

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal

Overcome, Abuse, Neglect

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga

Means, Judgment, Standards

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment''s not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
Kate Atkinson

Tired, Control, Play

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
Susie Orbach

Failure, Hurt, Emotional

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
David Limbaugh

Hope, America, Between

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
John Desmond Bernal

Art, Science, Mean

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
Dwight Yoakam

Old, Lives, Film

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Henry Charles Carey

Feeling, Before, Older

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Susan Griffin

History, Different, After

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
Carrie P. Meek

Put, Alienation, Arrest

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
Tilda Swinton

Character, Word

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