#renounce

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#citizen #citizenship #country #i #i love

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#cause #demonstration #governments #into #israel

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

#come #living #own #part #rarest

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#oneself #order #ought #party #remain

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh