Commit Quotes - Page 17

• There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

  Anthony de Mello

  Suicide, Insane, Mystic

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• The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

  David Ogilvy

  Faults, Worst, Interest

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Leaving, This Life

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• Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

  David Foster Wallace

  Suicide, Thinking, Mind

  "This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 12, 2012.

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  Freida Pinto

  Somewhere Else, Doctors, Order

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• What else may hap, to time I will commit.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, May, Fortune

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.

  Leonard Sweet

  Spiritual, Religious, Assessment

  Leonard Sweet (2010). “Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There”, p.28, David C Cook

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• Because we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out. When Christians commit sin, they do not cease worshiping. Rather, their worship is directed away from the Creator and toward created things. Repentance is the act of turning from sin and returning to God by trusting in Jesus Christ who is the perfect worshiper.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Perfect

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• One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

  Alec Baldwin

  Truest

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• I tend to work in the mornings, then take a few hours off in the afternoon to walk the dog, and then come back and work in the evening. So, if I can remember my pre-dog walking music when I get back then that's fine, I'll kind of commit to those bits, but if I can't remember them I'll just move on to something else.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Dog, Morning, Moving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.

  Carly Fiorina

  Isis, Support, Coalitions

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.

  Claire McCaskill

  Real, School, Justice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Fighting, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

  Alissa Nutting

  Beautiful, Reality, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You want to do all of these preventative things to make sure you always look as young as possible, you don't want to look your age. Looking young and attractive matters, even more than the type of person you are, even more than the actions you commit.

  Alissa Nutting

  Age, Looks, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

  Gish Jen

  Suicide, World, Treasure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Environment, Initiative

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Ignorance, Order

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

  Peter Robinson

  Reading, Giving, Psychology

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• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Maids, Bears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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• Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

  O. J. Simpson

  Suicide, Lonely, Men

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• When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

  John Scott

  Serious, Funding, Offence

  "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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