Commit Quotes

• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Jim Morrison

  Children, Parenting, Progress

  "College Students and Their Helicopter Parents: a Recipe for Stress" by Karl Gude, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Tattoo, Sexy, Passion

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.587, Open Road Media

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• Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, People, Failing

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• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Suicidal, Cake

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• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  Wallace Shawn

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Believe

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• No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Suicide, Law, Giving

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• We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

  Linda McCartney

  Thinking, Want

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• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

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• A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

  Bob Dylan

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Misunderstanding

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Inspirational, Guilt, Crime

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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Women, Writing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.29, Penguin

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• Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

  Hun Sen

  Suicide, Surrender, Pot

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• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Crucifixion Of Christ, Envy

  Waiting on God Letter 4 (1950)

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• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  Francesca Annis

  Needs, Pieces, Paper

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• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Badass

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• It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

  Pierre Corneille

  Powerful, Crime, Enough

  "Character: Araspe". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

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• You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Thinking, America

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Marijuana, Simple

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• We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

  Doc Hastings

  Justice, Allies, World

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• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

  Hosea Ballou

  Justice, Bears, Burden

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• It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

  Steve Buscemi

  Play, Trying, Matter

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• The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

  Donal Henahan

  Brain, Listening, Incessant

  "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.

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