Commit Quotes

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

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.

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

The better the script is the more you can commit, but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

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 love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.