The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned. – Mike Pompeo
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner – we were basically squatters. – Cristela Alonzo
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. – Lawrence Blume
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. – Josh Radnor
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. – Mario Balotelli
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. – Mark Haddon
Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still. – Reuven Rivlin
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. – Robert Reich
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life. – Rodman Philbrick
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. – Rose George
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. – William Bartram
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. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
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. – Tim Robbins
I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one – who was Lev Nussimbaum? – Tom Reiss
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. – Thomas Griffith
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. – Stephen Kinzer