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#abandon

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #abandon




If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.


Henry Clay


#avoid #better #collision #foreign #had

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.


Susan Griffin


#after #am #anyone #away #been

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.


Bill Griffith


#art #because #being #comics #fine

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.


Bede Griffiths


#also #attachments #children #everything #father

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.


Leon Jouhaux


#conditions #conflict #contrary #define #did

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.


Alexandra Kosteniuk


#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.


Henry Villard


#any #as far as #became #controlled #enemy

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.


Derek Walcott


#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.


Rebecca West


#desires #duty #itself #loyal #master

You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future.


Alyson Noel


#prophecy #the-immortals #moon






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