What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
[Repeated line] Timmons: [after they have reached an abandoned fort] There ain't nothing here, lieutenant.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.
She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.
But it will be like an old abandoned shell. There is nothing sad about old shells...
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
