Commit Quotes - Page 34

• After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Struggle, Gun

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

  John Lee Mahin

  Children, Clever, Names

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• ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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• My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

  Maria Jeritza

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Outcomes

  Billy Graham “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Two, Apples

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• It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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• Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

  Reza Aslan

  Suicide, Iran, Nuclear

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• Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Mistake, Political, Important

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• The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Government, Law, United States

  "Rice defends US policy". news.bbc.co.uk. December 5, 2005.

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• 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 and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

  John Mulaney

  Stories, Sides, Sticks

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• The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

  Robert Mueller

  Roles, Lines, Pilots

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• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Selfish, Mean

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• God of our fathers,
  you chose Abraham and his descendants
  to bring your Name to the Nations:
  we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those
  who in the course of history
  have caused these children of yours to suffer,
  and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves
  to genuine brotherhood
  with the people of the Covenant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Father, Names

  Pope John Paul II's Written prayer placed by the pope into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his apostolic journey to the Holy Land, w2.vatican.va. March 26, 2000.

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• It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

  Robert Greene

  People, Independence, Fool

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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• Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.

  Justin Kan

  Suicide, Dies

  "Start-up Secrets: Tips from America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs". www.inc.com. September 28, 2009.

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• If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

  Nik Halik

  Successful, Excellence, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Oct 02, 2014

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• It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

  Socrates

  Suffering, Injustice

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert

  Diana Dors

  Believe, Differences, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Father, Son, Acceptance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 231, 1895.

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• Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

  John Rosemond

  Mom, Children, Sleep

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• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  Laura Mvula

  Parent, Theory, Instruments

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• Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

  Larry Wall

  Suicide, People, Bunch

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