#abandon

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#choices #family #priorities #work #family

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#abandon #enter #here #who

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 essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#comparison #dreams #imaginations #reality #seems

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#anyone #caught #chaotic #concern #deny

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#books #i #interest #many #multiple

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

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