“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 24. The monster, speking to Walton, questions the injustice of how he has been treated.
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. – Henry Charles Carey
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. – Grandmaster Flash
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. – Georges Jacques Danton
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. – H. L. Mencken
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. – Howard Gardner
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. – Jeb Bush
We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects. – James Lankford
Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations – including counterterrorism operations – in Iraq. – Jack Keane
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I’m alone in the world and I’m just sort of abandoned. – Jamaica Kincaid
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. – Herman Hesse
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. – Andy Goldsworthy
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless – but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause. – Christina Baker Kline
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Christina Baker Kline
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. – Andrzej Wajda
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. – Angela Merkel
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. – Maxine Kumin
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. – David MacKenzie
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. – Edmund Morgan
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. – Derek Walcott
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. – Dan Hill
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. – Phyllis Schlafly
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. – Peter McWilliams