#abandon

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#about #choice #choose #credit #credit rating

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#actual #combat #country #every #experimented

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. ↗

— Ahmet Necdet Sezner

#being #demands #elements #meet #modern

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you. ↗

— Ann Douglas

#new-york #new-york-city #nyc #life

The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#falling-in-love #infatuation #summer #sweet-abandon #youthfulness

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her. ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#animals #love #love

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghanistan #been #came #flawed #i

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#above #awhile #boots #corridors #drawn

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#art #hope #i #iota #life