Quotes About Committing

#1. 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

#2. Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Cesare Beccaria

#3. Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Angus T. Jones

#4. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

#5. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

Virginia Woolf

#6. If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

Andy Daly

#7. By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

Stephen King

#8. America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

Craig Groeschel

#10. Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Jenna Fischer

#11. Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: church shopping.

Mark Driscoll

#12. If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#13. I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder ... Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Madeleine Albright

#14. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

Bodhidharma

#15. Allah-U-Akbar (God is great) is the most frightening word, because it always reminds me that someone is committing crime;specifically murder.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people ... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.

Alexis Tsipras

#17. The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.

Charlie Cook

#18. I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

James Mercer

#19. As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

Christina Engela

#20. It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Warren Buffett

#21. Dedication is committing to who/what you love and never giving up. Be persistent, believe in yourself, even when others don't.

Jessica Zayas

#22. Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

Stefan Zweig

#23. Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad ... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#25. Ten years was not enough. Stone should
not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly - not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#27. committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable. I

Kathleen Rooney

#28. Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

David Schwimmer

#30. Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Marguerite De Navarre

#31. If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Jed S. Rakoff

#32. Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities," King Solomon continued. "They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands of evil men they can be manipulated to produce great destruction.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should ... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

Nancy Reagan

#34. The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

Daphne Zuniga

#35. Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.

Jim Butcher

#36. In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation'
a devaluing of the world and its creator.

Richard Louv

#37. Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

Isabel Allende

#38. Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a new person, another person. To hate life worse than it hated me. To sin so as not to die.

Henri Barbusse

#39. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

Frank Abagnale

#40. As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Lee Roberson

#41. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.

Viktor E. Frankl

#42. I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.

Mike Royer

#43. Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

Oprah Winfrey

#44. We may believe in the deity and the salvation of Christ, and acknowledge ourselves to be sinners in need of his salvation; but this does not make us Christians. We have to make a personal response to Jesus Chris, committing ourselves unreservedly to him as our Savior and Lord.

John R.W. Stott

#45. And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box.

Sarah Monette

#46. It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

Angelina Jolie

#47. Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Brian Tracy

#48. Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Jaron Lanier

#49. If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

David Eagleman

#50. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

Sylvia Plath

#51. When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Ellen Goodman

#52. For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

Flea

#53. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.

Vincent Nichols

#54. I am committing suicide by cigarette, I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn't. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

Karl A. Menninger

#56. The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

Jean Harris

#57. Michael: "Thing is, I'd like to go out with you. What are you doing on Saturday?"
Siobhan: "Committing suicide."
Michael: "Alright then, what are you doing on Friday?"
(from Stormling, 2014)

John Hennessy

#58. The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Lee De Forest

#59. In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.

Bart Hopkins

#60. Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Ana Castillo

#61. I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

Matt Dillon

#62. Has it ever happened that a murderer just before committing his crime gets a message stating, 'Life is about loving', and stops in his tracks, or a banker reads 'No greater sin than cheating', and quits his job? So,

Twinkle Khanna

#63. Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

#64. Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I ruin anyone, it is only myself ... I am not committing a murder. Why do you look at me like that? Why are you so pale? Rodya, darling, what's the matter?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#65. By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Paul Ryan

#66. Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

#67. If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Jim Butcher

#68. It's like im committing suicide and its not the first time.. Do you know what is more devastating?
"No," he said.
"The fact that both times it was my loved ones who convicted such a death for me

Parinoush Saniee

#69. The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit by committing a crime. If a small burglary is likely to improve his legal position, at least temporarily, one may be sure he has been deprived of human rights.

Hannah Arendt

#70. Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

Fennel Hudson

#71. Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.

John Edward Williams

#72. He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

Courtney Milan

#73. I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.

Matthieu Ricard

#74. If anyone else said that to me, I think I'd roll my eyes, but Culler saying it to me means me committing it to memory and locking it inside so I'll always have it.

Courtney Summers

#75. Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#76. Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

Paula Gunn Allen

#77. Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.

Albert Camus

#78. There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

Leigh Brackett

#79. Prosperity without God is like committing suicide.

Sunday Adelaja

#80. For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

Karen Blixen

#81. To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#82. When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

Les Brown

#83. They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Elie Wiesel

#84. I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Alice Sebold

#85. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.

James S.A. Corey

#86. And you send people to jails. When they enter, they are amateur; when they come out, they have graduated from the university. All that your laws and your jails teach the criminals is one thing: that committing a crime is not a crime, but being caught is a crime.

Osho

#87. Today, take a pledge to love yourself. Do not cut, drown, get caught in the fire, or hang yourself. Reasons behind committing suicide can be cured!

Nikita Dudani

#88. In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Aristotle.

#89. I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

Sonny Rollins

#90. It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

Martin Rees

#91. Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Eric Maisel

#92. Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

Erica Jong

#93. In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#94. Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

Tom McCarthy

#95. When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

Ted Naifeh

#96. What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.

Karen Miller

#97. When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

Barack Obama

#98. The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

Frank Schaeffer

#99. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Ellen Willis

#100. Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

Charles Garfield