Committed Quotes - Page 19

• One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

  John Armstrong

  Attitude, Ideas, Color

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• Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

  David Benatar

  Running, Long, Democracy

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

  Spalding Gray

  Mother, Suicide, Waiting

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• I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

  Sue Kelly

  Government, Valleys, Veteran

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• As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

  James W. Loewen

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Employee, Housing

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• When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

  John Powell

  Giving Up, Real, People

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that our Government is committed to providing opportunities for Canadians of all ages and all abilities to engage in sport and physical activity and to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle.

  Jim Flaherty

  Sports, Opportunity, Numbers

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• West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment

  Ray Wilkins

  Commitment, Ham, West

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• Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

  Aaron Broussard

  New Orleans, Trials, Murder

  "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.

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• When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

  Deion Sanders

  Stupid, Adultery

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• Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

  John Polkinghorne

  Objectivity, Discovery, Views

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• We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Down And, Way, Destruction

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Differences, Giving

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• God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

  Thomas Hale

  Vacuums, Missionary, Register

  Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.18, William Carey Library

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• Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.

  John Stott

  Believe, Heaven, Church

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• We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

  Mike Bickle

  Passion, Commitment, Understanding

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• This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Real, Missionary

  John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1891). “John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides”

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reflection, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.

  Benjamin Zablocki

  Years, Community, Membership

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• Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'

  Sol Stern

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."

  Caesarius of Arles

  Men, Saint, Desert

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• I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Heart, Night

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.

  Cindy Wright

  Hurt, Revenge, Views

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