Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Victor Hugo
(on obtaining Irish citizenship) I dare say it was still considered to be an abandonment of England A betrayal! A heresy! It is not expected that someone from my background will leave England. But I`ve committed so many heresies that there`s no sense in n...
Daniel Day-Lewis
What readers will discover in this moving memoir is that no one is immune from the pain of loneliness, abandonment, divorce and all of the losses and challenges we each face in our lives.
Judith Regan
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Alvin Hellerstein
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Alice Raine
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?
Amy Newman
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
Dwight Yoakam
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn`t even looked at before.
Kenny Loggins
I don`t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn`t matter - it`s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Allen Stockberger
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Andres Cibotti