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 – 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 isn’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; — 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 category—except for the…
— Noam Chomsky
Who Wrote These Committing Quotes
267 authors contributed a total of 301 Committing Quotes, led by these top contributors: