#abandoned

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#during #i #my time #religion #school

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. ↗

— Gary North

#because #blessings #cannot #come #denied

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#road #strewn #vehicles

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. ↗

— Russell Banks

#after #cold #cold war #end #particularly

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. ↗

— William Bartram

#birds #helpless #other #own #rear

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#duties #established #few #merely #protection

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. ↗

— Mark Webber

#buildings #i #mother #over #sleep