Committed Quotes - Page 36

• If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Football, Clubs, Involved

  "Fulham's Mohamed Al Fayed offers Roy Hodgson 'anything he wants' to stay". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Ambition, Difficulty

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.73, Transaction Publishers

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• How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Prejudice, Sin, Immense

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 229), 1896.

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• People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

  Erich Fromm

  Suicide, Revenge, Passion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

  Juvenal

  Example

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Daughter, Suicide, Brother

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• It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

  George Washington

  Errors, Guilty, Crime

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “(v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution”, p.248

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• It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

  George Washington

  Easy, Found, Difficult

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law, Creating, Hands

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• Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Agreement, Challenges

  Barack Obama's comments during the press conference at the G20 summit in London, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

  George W. Bush

  Issues, Climate, Roles

  President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 11, 2001.

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• No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Political, Too Much, Serious

  "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality". Book by Eric Hobsbawm (p. 12), May 24, 1990.

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Divorce

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2003.

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• When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.

  Matthew Henry

  Mother, Peace, Father

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of John”, p.850, Bible Study Books

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• On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

  Martin Amis

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  Rip, People, Machines

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

  Theodore Roethke

  Mean, Order, Broken

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.73, Anchor

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• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Sin, Sinner

  Karl Barth (1995). “Gespräche, 1959-1962”, Tvz - Theologischer Verlag Zurich

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• Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Love You, Men

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.

  Rollo May

  Data, Order, Giving

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Usual, Want

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Plays: two”

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• That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

  George Mason

  May, Messengers, Facts

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

  Mark Steyn

  Ignorance, Mean, Government

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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