Commit Quotes - Page 2

• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

  Ernst Zundel

  Leadership, War, Socialist Government

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• Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

  Friedrich List

  Letting Go, Suicide, Fall

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”

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• If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

  Stand Watie

  Errors, Intention, Ifs

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• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Children, Men, I Can

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• And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

  Jennifer Garner

  Giving, Comedy, Scene

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• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Self Harm, Suicidal

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Suicidal, Together Again

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

  Ang Lee

  Honesty, Issues, Being Honest

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• I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kind, Persons

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• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  W. H. Auden

  America, Scary, Too Much

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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sin, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gun, Law

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• Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Suicide, Two

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Law, Strong Arms

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• I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  Barry White

  Heart, Hands, Whole

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  Edward Coke

  Soul, Corporations, Coke

  Case of Sutton's Hospital (1658)

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• He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Suicide, Humor

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• The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Animal, Differences, Literature

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• The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Sin, Blunders

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.277, University of Georgia Press

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• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  Vanilla Ice

  Suicide, I Realized

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• I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Calm, Quiet, Feels

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