Committed Quotes

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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas. — Mark Udall
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II,… — George Wald
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal… — Ai Weiwei
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. — Paul Wellstone
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An… — Howard Wilkinson
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the… — E. O. Wilson
Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more… — Daphne Zuniga
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. — Evgeny Morozov
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied… — Douglas Rushkoff
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… — William S. Burroughs
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf
Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a… — James Tiptree Jr.
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
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its… — Khalil Gibran
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition… — John F. Kennedy

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