What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”

It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren’t supposed to do.

I don’t have a dog, because I travel too much. I don’t want to just leave it abandoned.

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any

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.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.

We have the same job we’ve always had, to say that there are no final solutions, there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution that says if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you will simply abandon your critical faculties, a world of idiotic bliss can be yours.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area can look like.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Will you still love me, when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future

Art is never finished, only abandoned.