Committed Quotes

1499 quotes by 1196 authors

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something,… — Ken Blanchard
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during… — Charles Bukowski
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… — Sue Grafton
When you are committed to doing whatâ€™s right, you are sowing seeds for Godâ€™s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road… — Joel Osteen
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?… — Oscar Wilde
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired… — Anthony de Mello
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers. — James Patterson
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her. — Ann Brashares
Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no… — Terry Goodkind
In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another. — A. J. Jacobs
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they… — Sam Harris
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can… — Mark Steyn
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the… — Heather Graham
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at… — Douglas Adams
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your… — Azar Nafisi
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,… — John Berendt
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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