Quotation Explorer - 'Commit'

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everythingIs to succumb to violence. - Thomas Merton
...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you. - Nikita Dudani
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. - Margaret Cho
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don't let anyone spoil your Day.- - RVM
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit - Samuel Johnson
Don’t feel guilty for a crime you have not committed commit it and be guilt free - Amit Abraham
Commit to excellence, whatever you do. It will bring joy, happiness, and success for you. - Debasish Mridha
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare
If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them. - Shannon L. Alder
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. - Victor Hugo
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. - Jim Morrison
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. - Virgil
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. - John Waters
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor. - Walter Dean Myers
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. - Helen Rowland
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. - Salman Rushdie
People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide. - Tommy Tran
There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options - Stephenie Meyer
Everything is a test.Either you win or lose, either you commit yourself or not, it's all up to you. - Loren Zomarie Adong
Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason. - Clement of Alexandria
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. - Albert Einstein
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. - Eli Khamarov
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication into excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy doing the process. - Mark F. LaMoure
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens. - Angelina Jolie
In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself? - Jesse Ventura
Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. - John F. Kennedy
Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you. - Shannon L. Alder
I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery. - Ibn Warraq
If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways. - Debasish Mridha
When we commit our lives to the Lord,He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things. - Lailah Gifty Akita
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. - Ambrose Bierce
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don’t let anyone spoil your Day.- - RVM
If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it. - Samreen Quyyum
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. - Bertrand Russell
Blessed are you when you commit your life to the Lord.Your life will overflow with great joy and abundant life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
So you want to commit suicide,huh? Why? Life doesn't compel you to choose that way.Generally People makes you commit suicide.And those who makes you feel bad,trust my word, they don't care about you. Then why bother killing yourself? Kill them instead. - Riyadh Razzaq
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime. - Vincent Van Gogh
Passionately commit your life to fulfillment of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
True leaders do the right thing when the team's success is at stake and integrity is challenged.They just commit to personal excellence~ - Bluenscottish
Love will commit, or love will commit suicide. - Anthony Liccione
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life. - Katie Couric
People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves. - Osho
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. - Iris Murdoch
I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes. - Gaiman, Neil
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain
The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly. - Debasish Mridha
It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me. - Mary Sage Nguyen
AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit. - Ambrose Bierce
People don’t commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can’t find any lights of hope. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper. - Erica Jong
If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. - Hugh Macleod
Visualize yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself into an excellent person, with constant practice and perseverance. Enjoy and relish the process. - Mark F. LaMoure
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ. - Matt Chandler
I could’ve quit long ago, but there wouldn’t be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide. - James Jean-Pierre
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Be the source of peace and love; commit to be a person of love and kindness who radiates peace from within. - Debasish Mridha
If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs. - Sui Ishida
Any of the girl never ever commit when her intention is to cheat You. So, I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect - Anuj Kr. Thakur
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. - Anthony Robbins
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. - Victor Hugo
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. - William Shakespeare
God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach. - M.F. Moonzajer
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. - Emily Thorne
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins. - C. JoyBell C.
success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice - Ken Poirot
A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her - Deanna Kizis
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. - Ambrose Bierce
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - John Adams
When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces. - Jim Morrison
dead people commit suicide!! - Twinkle (Sugandha) Varshney
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain
The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. - Léon Bloy
I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye. - Ane Krstevska
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. - Randy K. Milholland
no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional victims who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime. - Gad Saad
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide. - Vincent Van Gogh
There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Growth is the sum of small efforts repeated daily. Commit yourself to take 5 DAILY ACTIONS that would move your goal towards completion. - Farshad Asl
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. - Amit Kalantri
Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are "Players", pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas! - Surgeo Bell
Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue. - Ken Poirot
Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions. - Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. - Helen Rowland
You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling. - Lailah GiftyAkita
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England - C.G. Jung
The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch. - Charles R. Swindoll
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. - Josh Billings
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. - George Orwell
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