Commits Quotes
127 quotes by 102 authors
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One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
— Steven Bochco
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There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
— Geoffrey Gray
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Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely…
— Steven Pressfield
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I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with…
— Amy Poehler
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The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
— Saint Basil
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It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his…
— Moses
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
— Thomas Huxley
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
— William Penn
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal…
— Ezra Pound
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
— Stefan Zweig
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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
— Mark Twain
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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.
— Spider Robinson
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the…
— Victor Hugo
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in…
— Madeleine Albright
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Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating…
— Frank Herbert
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Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to…
— Albert Camus
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