Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Maoist movement must abandon the use of violence as a political instrument and commit itself to the principles of democracy thereby creating conditions for joining the political mainstream.

You want to make sure you don't abandon what's already been built. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get it built. You want to respect what's already been done.

The Garden Club abandoned the process. They cut us out of the process, and the flagpole went into the ground.

The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning at an early date to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and to IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards.

The fundamental policy of China on the question of Dalai Lama is that we demand that the Dalai Lama must acknowledge that Tibet and Taiwan are part of China and seriously and sincerely abandon his pursuit of 'Tibet independence' and then we can discuss about his personal future.

The county was also organized in New England, but took on chiefly judicial and military functions, and speedily abandoned local administration.

The cross-border train service has not been abandoned altogether but there are still deliberations at government-to-government level. We expect to launch the service soon.

O. J. Simpson

This is not about abandoning one business and replacing it with another,

A Karma-yogi, abandoning the fruit of work, attains Supreme Bliss while others, who are attached to the fruits of work, become bound by selfish work.

The dam isn't the problem, it's the maintenance that's the problem. The state has abandoned this reservoir since maybe 8, going on 9 years now.

Carlos Gonzalez

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact.

We're not going to abandon this ship. We believe the real work starts now in educating the public about the law. We'll use our credibility and our name to try to educate the public.

We're not going to abandon our homeland security legislation to give tax cuts to the wealthy and to profitable corporations.

David Perry

We actually have people abandoning using their computers because it's just too much trouble,

It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not abandoning the basics. We're trying to show people that we're about more than just basics.

The bottom line about the report is that it shows that Safe Surrender is working. The word about the program is getting out there and mothers are making the right choice when they feel the need to abandon their newborn.

Peter Capaldi

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

Diane Setterfield

The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.

The agency realized in recent years that you can't browbeat operators into improved safety, and this general approach has worked. The tragic events of this year have given everyone pause. But I don't think it means we want to abandon what we have found works.

Jonathan Hickman

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

It's unknown if it was an abandoned mine or if the hill was just so saturated that it gave way.

Diane Watson

Don't close it. Don't shrink it. Don't hack it up, ... Don't starve it of resources. Don't drain it of its professional talent. Don't hand it over to strangers. Don't pass the buck. Don't ignore it, and don't abandon the people it serves day in and day out.

Congressman Hunter is a close friend of Mr. Cunningham's, and friends don't abandon each other during times of difficulty.

The new well is strictly for Ms. Booth's use and replaces her existing well, which we will properly abandon when we have finished investigating it. We have not worked out any arrangements to use the new well as a monitoring well in the future.

That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.

It's simple: all of the roads were opened up to Arab traffic, and our lives are at risk. It's time for us to wake up and realize that by opening our roads, leaving army posts unmanned, and abandoning most of the army checkpoints, we are sitting ducks.

That is one of the reasons why we think that the Sharon plan provides such an opportunity, because it offers a chance of breaking the cycle of violence, withdrawing from territory, abandoning settlements, giving Palestinians control over land, and reinvigorating institutions that can meet the needs of the people,

Jared Diamond

Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B.C.

It's an appearance of justice, but it's not justice. It's just the beginning of the struggle, and I won't abandon it.

It will come at a really interesting time because the Fed has been so much more successful in recent years than central banks in countries that favored a more rule-oriented approach. One has to wonder why the Fed would abandon the approach that has worked so well.

It will take us 1.7 more miles through two abandoned mine sites.

Jim Lee

They didn't abandon their duty. This is the call of firefighters everywhere. Every call you answer can be your last.

They can place those in ornamental ponds, they can place those in abandoned swimming pools, any area that doesn't open up to a natural body of water.