Abandoned

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

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.

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.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Until 1914 I loved to travel, I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

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.

Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.

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.

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

I've never abandoned the novel.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.