Committing Quotes

301 Committing quotes by 267 unique authors

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts â€“ and… — Jasper Fforde
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have… — Baltasar Gracian
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing… — John Stott
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. — Kurt Vonnegut
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to… — Jim Butcher
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain… — Elie Wiesel
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. — Otto von Bismarck
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives… — Frederic Bastiat
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty… — Michael Palin
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. — Chinua Achebe
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isnâ€™t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as… — Margaret Atwood
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. — Albert Camus
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
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall — Virginia Woolf
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. — Thomas Bernhard
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
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard categoryâ€”except for the… — Noam Chomsky

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