It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.
People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.
Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U. S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end. . . To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
Abandon every hope, you who enter.
It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
Never abandon imagination
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that. . . Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence. . . you wait till later to find out what the sentence means. . . The present is always changing the past.
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.