Quotation Explorer - 'Commission'

The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases. - Steven Magee
And if an increasingly pluralistic America ever decides to commission a new motto, I’m open for business, because I’ve got a better one than E pluribus unum. Tu dormis, tu perdis . . . You snooze, you lose. - Paul Beatty
It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014 - Abdullah Reslan Lawyer
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement."[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] - John Steinbeck
Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission. - Daryl Baugh
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. - Publilius Syrus
We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. - John Winthrop
May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. - Fred Allen
The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried. - The Dharmapada
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. - Robert Burns
Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter. - Unarine Ramaru
When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost. - Wes Moore
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion. - Charles R. Swindoll
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