Committing Quotes
301 quotes by 279 authors
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Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of…
— John McCain
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I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.
— Dick Cheney
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In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;…
— Wendell Phillips
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
— Brian Tracy
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For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising…
— Peter Lilley
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their…
— Paul Polman
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What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head…
— Kenny Smith
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"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what…
— Jimmy Carter
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If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like…
— John Prine
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Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an…
— Lawrence Venuti
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The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature
— Daphne Zuniga
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Help Kids Not Feel Alone And Stop Kids From Committing Suicide
— Kid Cudi
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Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life,…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder…
— Thomas Paine
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There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence…
— Hannah Arendt
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I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You…
— Malala Yousafzai
Who Wrote These Committing Quotes
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