Top 100 Commit Quotes
#2. In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
Imelda Marcos
#3. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.
Terry Tempest Williams
#4. What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?
Robert D. Kaplan
#5. I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.
Steve Albini
#6. Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
Jim Hightower
#7. Think deeply to find the purpose of life but commit deeply to achieve success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#8. There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#9. How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes that this regime is blithely committing right now.
Chris Bohjalian
#10. When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
Cory Doctorow
#11. I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.
Lionel Messi
#12. Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
T. S. Eliot
#13. And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
Jennifer Garner
#14. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
Anonymous
#15. Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'
Amanda Seyfried
#16. Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.
Teri Hatcher
#17. One employee missed an event to witness the birth of his child. Musk fired off an e-mail saying, "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't."*
Ashlee Vance
#18. For your love to stand the test of time, you must commit to behaviors that protect your marriage, in spite of how you feel about your spouse on that particular day.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson
#19. To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!
Victoria Laurie
#20. The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
Joseph Prince
#21. It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
#22. Then there were the general moral duties: not to commit adultery or fornication, not to stay out late at night after 8 p.m. frequenting inns and brothels, and not to play cards except during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Jasper Ridley
#23. It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
Dorothea Dix
#24. Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
Bill Crawford
#25. If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
Dave Mustaine
#26. While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
Ken Salazar
#28. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
Wendy Shalit
#29. I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
Anna Akhmatova
#30. The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
#31. It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
J.D. Salinger
#32. That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I was neither hot nor in shape. I was just a normal boy in an extraordinary world, and stories like that, no matter how misleading and destructive, would always appeal to people like me.
John Goode
#33. Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
Mother Teresa
#34. I wish I'd become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs - like baking - while dancing part-time, and didn't commit until I was 29.
Anton Du Beke
#35. I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
Jerry Seinfeld
#36. Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
Andi Jones
#37. This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will.
Steven Weinberg
#38. Newsflash; not everything that
drops from your gorgeous dumb mouth is
the truth." There's a pause. "Ah, shit. I just called you gorgeous. Now I have to commit seppuku."
"Don't you dare," I mumble into her neck.
Sara Wolf
#39. It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
Derek Landy
#41. If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
Robert Mueller
#42. 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
#43. ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
Ambrose Bierce
#44. An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.
Stendhal
#45. There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
Virginia Woolf
#46. I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.
Paul Walker
#47. 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
#48. Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
Martin Luther
#49. I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
David Gemmell
#50. Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
Nancy Lublin
#51. Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
Lucretius
#52. Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
Lee H. Hamilton
#53. When you truly make the decision, it becomes real. You fully commit and develop a belief that ensures that it is not a matter of if you will achieve your goals, but a matter of when.
Austin Netzley
#54. I have committed the worst of sins one can commit ... I have not been happy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#55. Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high.
Tim Gunn
#56. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.
Marlene Caroselli
#57. Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#58. Why regret that I lived miserably Yesterday. Rather, Why not commit and resolve to live happily today.
R.v.m.
#59. Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
Brian Keene
#60. Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide.
Bertie Ahern
#61. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.
Anne Perry
#62. Found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.
Jenny Offill
#63. The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
Hubie Brown
#64. Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca
#65. Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
Machado De Assis
#66. Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.
Brian Tracy
#67. Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.
Scott Baio
#68. If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant.
Christine Caine
#69. I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.
Emil Cioran
#70. The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.
Robert Jordan
#71. The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.
Christiane Collange
#72. Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
Mario Draghi
#73. If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.
Lizz Winstead
#74. I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.
Rod McKuen
#75. And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the crime, instead of taking the criminal. You swear it?'
'Certainly.'
'Sworn! Let Tippins look to it. Her life's in danger.
Charles Dickens
#76. Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#77. The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#78. The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.
Neil Gaiman
#79. I like you so much,
I would commit reason for you.
But it's not possible,
I'm a woman.
Sienna McQuillen
#80. It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.
Curtis Sliwa
#81. Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.
Thomas Szasz
#82. It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden
#83. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#84. I've met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence just like me. And without exception, without question, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography.
Ted Bundy
#85. So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Damien Hirst
#86. One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
Grant Morrison
#87. 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
#88. The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
Ambrose Burnside
#89. From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for ...
Jo Labadie
#90. People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
Eric Schneiderman
#91. It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
Stephen Hawking
#92. Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.
Steven Pressfield
#94. I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
Queen Latifah
#95. Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
Frank Herbert
#96. God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#97. The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.
Dennis Prager
#98. 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
#99. I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.
Doris Lessing
#100. There are crimes that no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good'.
Thomas Merton
