Committed Quotes - Page 5

• We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

  George W. Bush

  September 11, Harbour, Distinction

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.38, M.E. Sharpe

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• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Crazy, Heart, Patriotic

  "Style Invitational Week 1055: A K-contest to honor the K of 1K blots of ink; plus anagrams". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, Government, Lines

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Humanity, Crime

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• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Perseverance, Business

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• I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

  Mother Jones

  Believe, Responsibility, Men

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• I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

  Andrea Jung

  Thinking, Careers, Feels

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• An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

  Victor Kiam

  Success, Stress, Entrepreneur

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• Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Politician, Equal

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Commitment, Pigs

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• You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

  Joel Osteen

  Commitment, Church, Christ

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• Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

  Ezra Pound

  Suicide, Latin, Long

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• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Terrorism, Commit, Hamas

  "Why the Park51 debate remains unresolved" by Elizabeth Samson, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Country, Names

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• I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, War, Terrorism

  Feinstein Introduces 'The 2005 Defend the Corporate Death Squads Act'" by Charlie Cray, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2005.

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• Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Organization, Soul, Conformity

  "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

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• I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Marriage, Wife, Married

  "Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood mourns last of the greats" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Spring, Opposites, Political

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• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

  John Calvin

  Trust, Christian, Prayer

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

  Justin Sane

  Mean, Principles, Violence

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• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  Larry Norman

  Soul, Needs, Body

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

  Nicole Kidman

  Ifs

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• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Military, War, Doubt

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.71, Lantern Books

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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