Committed Quotes

• Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Believe
  • Police
  • Murder

• The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Words
  • Difference
  • Committed

• If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Gun
  • Stuck
  • Mess

• I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Ocean
  • Embrace
  • Surf

• The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Committed

• A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Team
  • Achieve
  • Causes

• Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Results
  • Activity
  • Workaholic

• Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Protect
  • Committed
  • Agreement

• If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

  

  Genghis Khan
  • Punishment
  • Committed

• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Suicide
  • Committed
  • Sense Of Humor

• If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Memories
  • Ability
  • Conversation

• When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

  

  William Wells Brown
  • Mother
  • Change
  • Boys

• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Suffering
  • Chance
  • Goal

• Any sin that any sinner ever committed, every sinner under proper provocation could commit.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • Sin
  • Committed
  • Provocation

• The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now because they're younger, more committed probably than Michael is. I'm not saying Michael's not committed, but he's 36. Wheel to wheel, the young guy's going to win, I have no doubt about that.

  

  Eddie Irvine
  • Win
  • Younger
  • No Doubt

• All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

  

  William Hurt
  • Knows
  • Committed

• The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Free
  • Movement
  • Speech

• You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mistakes
  • Committed
  • Sins

• How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

  

  David Bennun
  • Trying
  • Sleep
  • Cinema

• No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.

  

  William Maginn
  • Suicide
  • Committed
  • Smoker

• We are committed to re-earning your trust.

  

  Oscar Munoz
  • Committed

• You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Done
  • Destruction
  • Consequence

• As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

  

  Eskinder Nega
  • Pain
  • Democracy
  • Economic

• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

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