Committed Quotes - Page 33

• If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

  John Assaraf

  Teaching, Whatever It Takes, Convenient

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jul 19, 2014

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• Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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• If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Effort, Consciousness

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• From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Religious, People

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

  J. Robbins

  Jobs, House, Support

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

  Tony Abbott

  Military, Hard Work, Police

  "Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes - politics live". Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2015.

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• The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Support, Individuality, Depth

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• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Gold, Ashes

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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• If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stones, Trouble, Burden

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Noble Man, Atrocities Committed

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• Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.

  John Bunyan

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.85

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• Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

  Tom Peters

  Limits, Ability, Wells

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• If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

  Carl Sagan

  Survival, Earth, Speak

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.349, Ballantine Books

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• I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed

  Dan Quayle

  President, Serious, Prepared

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• Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

  Herbert Spencer

  Host, Aggression

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• Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Regret, Opportunity, Sin

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• I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.

  Susan Sarandon

  Hate, Knowing, Assumption

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• Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Moving, Ignorance, Commitment

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• May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Sad, Death, God

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• We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

  Martin Fry

  Important, Magnificence, Succeed

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• The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.

  Craig Fugate

  Team, Needs, Want

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• The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Atrocities, Firsts

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• The parents pull you aside and say, `I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot for the community, and giving,' .. But I'm from here and committed to Homestead and the Steel Valley, and it's a no-brainer to me.

  Charlie Batch

  Sacrifice, Giving, Community

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• I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.

  Jon Jones

  Football, Mean, Hockey

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