#abandon

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cloak #enormous #having #his #hitler

Perhaps Moses transferred his perceived abandonment to God. He had yet to come to know God as El Shaddai. “El” means God. “Shaddai” comes from the word “breast” and means the All-Sufficient One, the Pourer or Shedder forth of blessings. El Shaddai was invisibly there with Moses, providing a spiritual breast for Moses’ spirit. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”--II Corinthians 12:9 (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages) ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#adoption #all-sufficient #age

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#cooking #entered #into #like #love

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. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#chosen #i #i think #jobs #just

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies. ↗

— LL Cool J

#about #cool #figure #had #how

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

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

#abandonment #became #century #early #film

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#al #applying #contemplated #conventions #different

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#family #impermanence #beauty