I don’t give up on people. I don’t have a dimmer switch. It’s who I am. Until I am kicked out, I will be with you. I don’t abandon people. I just don’t.
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they’ll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.
And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base.
It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not ‘either/or’ options – indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?
The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world’s most desperate people.
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
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.
I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these ‘wild abandon’ things.
By protecting our Afghan friends from reprisals and welcoming them into our American family, we can assert that the United States is still a great and good country – and that we do not abandon those who risked their lives to serve with us.
I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it’s absolutely necessary.
If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn’t abandon it. Because I remembered: There’s always more.
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn’t have to go out and hunt for food for herself.
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it – Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so – would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours’ wrath.
I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.
Think about ‘GoodFellas’: It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don’t have any sense of what’s going to happen next.
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‘why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,’ and they abandon their values.
I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing?’ I had no idea.
I’ve never reached the point where I was ready to abandon a series.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
In 2016 the public voted by a majority to leave the E.U. As I can see from my mailbag, some are angry at being deprived of their hopes and expectations. They demand action to implement their vote, just as others require we should think again and abandon the project entirely.
When I left my mountain home and came to Washington, I promised the veterans in our district that I would be their weapon in Washington. I will never abandon those who sacrificed their life and livelihood in defense of our freedoms.
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security – and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
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.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
I don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well.
To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.
I’d paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I’d go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can’t win by running on incrementalism.
The musical era depicted in ‘Round and Round’ may not be pop’s brightest moment, but rather than abandon its ideas, Ariel Pink reclaims them for himself and holds on tight.
I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.
The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can’t live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
I’ve noticed that when people make vampire movies, they’re always determining which of the rules they’re going to stick to and which they’ll abandon.
Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.
I’m like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It’s the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
We cannot abandon those who helped us – the personnel who helped us and aided our efforts when we were in Afghanistan.
