A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)

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. (Quote by - Kim Kalama)

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no? (Quote by - Nastassja Kinski)

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy. (Quote by - Mark McKinney)

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good. (Quote by - Al Goldstein)

There's a $2 million pool sitting out there abandoned, built ... a year after Prop 13 was passed, ... The board had the opportunity to stop it, but it was going to cost them several hundred thousand dollars to get out of the contract, so they let it go. (Quote by - Don Schrader)

The first thing we did as a program was come up with an inventory of abandoned mines in the state. (Quote by - Bruce Beechie)

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. (Quote by - Mary Higgins Clark)

The property is currently being used in a variety of ways, including commercial dog kennels, and abandoned horse barn and stable facility, as well as several residences. (Quote by - Cary Clarke)

People came in here without anything. They were tired and hungry and angry, convinced they had been abandoned by America, ... But this city and its people stood up to help. I've had literally thousands of volunteers show up, ready to help, ready to work. (Quote by - David Moore)

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact. (Quote by - Carlos Gonzalez)

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. (Quote by - Confucius)

Detroit's the city everybody likes to look at as a place that's dangerous, abandoned and economically no longer viable. It's the most famous failed city in the United States. (Quote by - Jerry Herron)

I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes. (Quote by - Paul Simon)