Commit Quotes
1241 quotes by 980 authors
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend…
— Suzanne Collins
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
— John Fowles
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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…
— Bernhard Schlink
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You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we…
— Angelina Jolie
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...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
— Francis Chan
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Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on…
— Deb Caletti
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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…
— Erich Fromm
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Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
— Paulo Coelho
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Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty…
— Ayelet Waldman
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
— Daniel Handler
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The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is…
— Harold B. Lee
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After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by…
— Anne Fortier
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We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate…
— N. T. Wright
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If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well…
— Sylvia Plath
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Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right…
— Thomas Szasz
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So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because…
— Gwen Cooper
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Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the…
— William Blake
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing…
— Walker Percy
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