#abandon

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. ↗

— George Sutherland

#comfort #constitution #may #pinch #provisions

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#always #character #i #i always #i think

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So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look.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

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#beliefs #big #costly #entities #even

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#acting #after #ages #back #bringing

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

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#abide #against #anger #decision #either