Quotes about commitment

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“The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”

“I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”

“Hey, for a scythe, cookies, and a chance to commit murder, Kronos could hide his true feelings.”

“she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.”

“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”

“I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.”

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”

“Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".”

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”

“I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

“men do not suspect faults which they do not commit”

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”

“premature design commitment is a design failure mode”

“We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.”

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”

“Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.”

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.”

“If you get stuck to the committed path then…
this wall has to be..
KNOCKED DOWN!!”

“Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.”

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

“Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.”

“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”

“I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.”

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”

“… when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”

“I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)”

“None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)”

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.”

“However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.”

“Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance”

“Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.”

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”

“You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.”

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”

“When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.”

“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather
it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

“When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.”

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”

“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

“And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”

“Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts… in negative space.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.”

“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”

“… history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”

“People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.”

“Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?”

“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”

“There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.”

“People struggle to live, not to commit suicide”

“For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men roadtrip on the way to the destination is often the more fun.”

“Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.”

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”

“The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.”

“Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.”

“Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what”

“Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.”

“A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”

“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

“To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.”

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”

“How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”

“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron”

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”

“I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.”

“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”

“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”