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Art is never finished, only abandoned. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. -- W. H. Auden
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. -- Martha Beck
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
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. -- Paul Nurse
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish. -- Dick Armey
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. -- Peter McWilliams
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. -- Emile Durkheim
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. -- Cormac McCarthy
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. -- Harold Rosenberg
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. -- Jonathan Lethem
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. -- Krystal
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. -- Blaise Pascal
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
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
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. -- Henning Mankell
We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it. -- Stacie Orrico
Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. -- Angelo Scola
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
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. -- H. L. Mencken
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
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
There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers. -- Ernest Bramah
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. -- Martin Van Buren
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. -- B. F. Skinner
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. -- Suze Orman
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. -- Angela Merkel
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. -- Mario Balotelli
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. -- Oprah Winfrey
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. -- Francisco de Goya
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. -- Octavia E. Butler
People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them. -- Dada Vaswani
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me. -- Lauryn Hill
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. -- Xun Zi
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. -- Giles Andreae
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. -- Jon Kyl
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. -- Xun Zi
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. -- Chris Rock
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. -- John James Audubon
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. -- David Cameron
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside. -- Jeffrey Brown
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. -- Jose Mujica
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. -- Edvard Munch
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. -- Giles Andreae
What abandoned course is that? -- Sam Snead
I've never abandoned the novel. -- V. S. Naipaul
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me. -- Leonard Cohen
Recently abandoned women can be complicated. -- Elizabeth Kostova
Good books are never finished but abandoned. -- Marc Alan Edelheit
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters -- Francisco Goya
Poems are never finished - just abandoned -- Paul Valery
A movie is never finished, only abandoned. -- George Lucas
A book is never finished; it's abandoned. -- Gene Fowler
Love can be put off, never abandoned. -- Propertius
Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned. -- Fred Brooks
Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor. -- Tony Meloto
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. -- Oscar Wilde
When she needed help most, she was abandoned. -- Matthew Quick
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. -- Peter Dinklage
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself. -- Theodore Millon
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. -- Dalai Lama
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. -- Dan Simmons
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. -- Cormac McCarthy
When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise. -- Laozi
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. -- E. M. Forster
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God -- John Eldredge
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. -- Mark Webber
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. -- Paul Valery
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. -- D. H. Lawrence
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. -- David Whyte
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. -- China Mieville
I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans. -- Stephanie Miller
[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump. -- Rush Limbaugh
WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism. -- Tama J. Kieves
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. -- Livy
If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. -- Martha Beck
I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. -- George Lucas
[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump. -- Rush Limbaugh
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. -- Louise Erdrich
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. -- Russell Banks
Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass. -- Suzy Kassem
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. -- Wes Fesler
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. -- Pasquier Quesnel
I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. -- Julianne Hough
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time. -- Oswald Chambers
Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. -- Sun Tzu
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. -- Keith Waterhouse
It is man who has abandoned God, not God who has abandoned man. -- Angelia Griffin
Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that. -- David Fincher
A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. -- Zig Ziglar
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved. -- John Green
It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. -- Esther Perel
I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. -- David Caruso
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. -- Hillary Clinton
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. -- Halle Berry
I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy -- Ashleigh Brilliant
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve. -- Oswald Chambers
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. -- Mason Cooley
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. -- Ayn Rand
A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. -- Maria Montessori
Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique. -- Henry Giroux
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. -- Georges Jacques Danton
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. -- Georges Jacques Danton
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. -- Daniel Clowes
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. -- Don DeLillo
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. -- Gertrude Atherton
I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician. -- Jonathan Cain
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. -- Gerald R. Ford
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. -- Honore de Balzac
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could. -- Alice Hoffman
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection -- Samuel Adams
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. -- Richelle Mead

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