#abandon

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#because #before #beginning #built #century

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#asthma #attack #attended #child #children

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#any #anything #been #being #cannot

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. ↗

— Suze Orman

#achieved #ever #february #financial #fitness

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#cool #him #i #i think #jesus

Love can be put off, never abandoned. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#love #never #off #put

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. ↗

— Brian Eno

#control #finding #happens #i #involve

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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