#abandon

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#analyzed #anticipated #interest #new #news

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

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I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#away #carried #day #every #every day

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#around #behind #existed #felt #good

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#avoid #believe #change #classes #college

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#europe #excluded #nobody #only #succeeds

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

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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