Commit Quotes - Page 35

• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Men, Evil

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• I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

  Nick Hornby

  Break Up, Breakup, Real

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• The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Successful, Romantic Love

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• The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Stupid, Practice

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
  other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Family, Marriage, Children

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• Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.

  Jonathan Schell

  Dream, Taken, Goal

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• Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people.

  Harry Belafonte

  War, Rights, People

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• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicide, Atheist, Men

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• I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Player

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• How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

  Torii Mototada

  War, Men, Valour

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• No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Men, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.278

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• It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Prayer, Hands, People

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• Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Jesus, Prayer, Hero

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• One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Greatness, Giving Money

  "New Priorities" by Peter Drucker, www.context.org. Summer 1992.

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

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• To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

  Cesare Pavese

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

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• The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

  Wu Guoguang

  Suicide, Suicidal, Idealist

  "The Gate of Heavenly Peace". Frontline (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Rain

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  E. B. White

  Suicide, Suicidal, Presidential

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• How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

  Judy Tenuta

  Suicide, Suicidal, Dating

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

  J. William Fulbright

  Suicide, Educational, Race

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