Top 91 Quotes About Not Committing
#1. If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Auberon Herbert
#2. The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.
Joan Aiken
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I said to myself, 'Malala, be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
Malala Yousafzai
#7. Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
#8. Floyd did not accept the blame for his defeat. He blamed his fellow general Henry Wise for not committing some of his regiments to the battle. Wise reacted to the charge by calling Floyd "that bullet-hit son of a bitch.
Clint Johnson
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
Les Brown
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.
Marcia Angell
#20. 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
#21. 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.
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise.
Thabo Katlholo
#28. How many times must I tell you not to kill anyone tonight? It's like a sickness with you, isn't it? Have you ever gone a whole day without committing murder?"
"Has anyone who's spent their whole day with you?" I muttered.
Jeaniene Frost
#29. Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults, they will speak to her about it; they cannot allow themselves to do anything else.
Teresa Of Avila
#30. But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I hug them close; they're mine.
Hilary Mantel
#31. I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman
#32. Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
Andre Braugher
#33. We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.
Nia Long
#34. It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the humanity of the person committing the atrocious acts. This is not weakness. This is heroic strength, the noblest strength of the human spirit.
Desmond Tutu
#35. It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.
Joseph Stefano
#36. Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
Gore Vidal
#37. Help Kids Not Feel Alone And Stop Kids From Committing Suicide
Kid Cudi
#38. When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all.
M.F. Moonzajer
#39. Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
J.K. Rowling
#40. I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.
James Mercer
#41. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
Edgar Allan Poe
#42. I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.
Jim Butcher
#43. Life is an opportunity. The only crime we are committing is not taking that opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#44. How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.
Jerry Bridges
#45. There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing - somehow - not to give up.
Gregory Maguire
#46. I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.
Dick Cheney
#47. 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
#48. I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder ... Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
Madeleine Albright
#49. 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
#50. We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Luc De Clapiers
#51. That's such a relevant thing, as an actor - committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do have to block things out sometimes, and sometimes it's easier than others.
Dylan O'Brien
#52. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato
#53. Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.
Douglas Wilson
#54. Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#55. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
Steven Pressfield
#56. Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.
Idries Shah
#57. The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category - except for the category of familiarity.
Noam Chomsky
#58. His date kept saying to him, "How horrible ... Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.
J.D. Salinger
#59. The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'.
Victoria Clayton
#60. Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
Uri Orbach
#61. He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims
the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.
Brynn Chapman
#62. Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#63. Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
Kiki Smith
#65. We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.
William Martin
#66. A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. There
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#67. The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Eric Liu
#68. Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.
Jeffrey Fry
#69. Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
Bianca Jagger
#70. Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good - or not doing wrong?
William Irwin
#71. If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#72. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracian
#73. You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
Matt Taibbi
#74. Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity
something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.
Marc Parent
#75. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.
Neil A. Fiore
#76. Individual sins (committing a homosexual act, doing drugs, getting drunk, etc.) aren't what send you to hell. Your sins have been forgiven, but the sin that'll send you to hell is not accepting the payment for those sins. Everything revolves around how you respond to Jesus.
Andrew Wommack
#77. I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose ownership could be traced. Not that the gun owners in Montana are planning on committing crimes with their unregistered guns - they just don't like the federal government knowing their every move.
Patricia Briggs
#78. Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'
Pope Francis
#79. Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.
Richard Sibbes
#80. for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.
Sarah Bakewell
#81. If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone, and I'd recommend working as a surveyor's assistant or office staff before committing to the necessary schooling.
Mark Mason
#82. The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
Thomas Paine
#83. The free-lovers say: "Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times." Emphatically it will not work.
Dale Ahlquist
#84. European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.
Noam Chomsky
#85. It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in those who stray and do not repent. Those who have not committed cannot stray.
Sarah Price
#86. Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.
Al Sharpton
#87. Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
J.K. Rowling
#88. I thought about the kind of man who would stop off somewhere for a gun but not put on a pair of pants before committing grand larceny.
Tom Piccirilli
#89. When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.
Ricky Martin
#90. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#91. I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.
Scott McCloud
