History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.
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.
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirt...
The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.
The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
In the future, charities will be like pets. Everybody will want one, and millions will be abandoned.
If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
