#abandon

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

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

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cloak #enormous #having #his #hitler

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

— Gustave Courbet

#art #hope #i #iota #life

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#been #buildings #certain #city #detroit

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#family #impermanence #beauty

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#accused #around #been #never #other

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#altman #bailed #could #easily #film