Top 100 Quotes About Commission
#1. A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
Edgar Degas
#2. On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.
Martin McGuinness
#3. It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
Elliott Erwitt
#4. 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
#5. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Rick Warren
#6. Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
Fritz Kreisler
#7. The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in remembrance.
Thomas Manton
#10. We have not been promised rescue from this world; we have been commanded to go and take back this world. The Great Commission is Jesus' call to storm the gates of hell and to liberate his children, establishing his kingdom.
Richard Stearns
#11. I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.
Craig Ferguson
#12. The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
Ludwig Quidde
#13. When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.
Mark Mason
#14. It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison
#15. Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
Plato
#16. When people find their calling and receives their commission, enemy will appear to hinder the fulfillment of this commission
Sunday Adelaja
#17. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
Jaroslav Hasek
#19. These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
Caleb Cushing
#20. Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.
Alex Berenson
#21. Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
Stockwell Day
#22. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
John Hagee
#23. Everyone that wants to fulfil God's commission and His ministry in their lives has to know how to wait patiently, how to wait for God. Only when He then appears can success be guaranteed.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Rene Cassin
#25. Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
Thomas Jefferson
#26. The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
Leonard Boswell
#27. We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#28. Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.
Josh McDowell
#29. 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
#30. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.
Joe Barton
#31. Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
Fred Allen
#32. A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
Huey Long
#33. We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.
Russ Feingold
#34. Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
William Shakespeare
#35. I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go.
William J. Clinton
#36. Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing,
Goodluck Jonathan
#37. They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.
Gray Davis
#38. All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Edwin M. Stanton
#40. It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
A.J. Ayer
#41. What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
Tony Blair
#42. Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
Vincent Bugliosi
#43. One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.
Louis Stokes
#44. The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.
John Wooden
#45. The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.
John B. Anderson
#46. The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
J.I. Packer
#47. He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
Seneca The Younger
#48. The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
Vance Havner
#49. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a lobby group created by the Church of Scientology that runs the psychiatry museum, maintains that no mental diseases have ever been proven to exist.
Lawrence Wright
#50. A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
Twyla Tharp
#51. I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.
George H. W. Bush
#52. I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
Harold Prince
#53. So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
Charles Dickens
#54. Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian)
Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha)
Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.
Albert Speer
#56. No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah Arendt
#57. My sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
William Dobell
#58. We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.
Curt Weldon
#59. We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.
Gracie Allen
#60. Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced.
Jerry Falwell
#61. When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.
John Paul Stevens
#62. I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.
Curt Weldon
#63. We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.
Barack Obama
#64. Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.
Ron Wyden
#65. I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
Emanuel Celler
#66. Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.
Argus Hamilton
#67. subalterns, when Sebastian bought his first commission
C.S. Harris
#68. The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
Kofi Annan
#69. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler
#70. Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission ... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.
Joe Eszterhas
#71. There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
Noorilhuda
#72. If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.
Charlie Munger
#73. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.
Brother Andrew
#74. Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
Simone Weil
#75. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.
Leigh Bardugo
#76. I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.
Paul Cellucci
#77. One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works.
Susanna Phillips
#78. The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Ida B. Wells
#79. After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#80. If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
Peter Drucker
#81. Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Will Rogers
#82. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#83. For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
Mary Bono
#84. Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.
Tobias Smollett
#85. When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.
Wes Moore
#86. Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.
Rob Portman
#87. Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.
Richard Brown
#88. Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.
Louis Stokes
#89. Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
#90. At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
Roger Staubach
#91. In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
Brad Holland
#92. The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
Leonard Boswell
#94. Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Linda Tripp
#95. Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
Helmut Jahn
#96. Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Myrtle Reed
#97. The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
Mark Kirk
#98. Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.
Sally Stanford
#99. There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it...It's a struggle with suicidal imbeciles.
The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Location 59)
H.G.Wells
#100. The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.
Jimmy Doolittle
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