Committed Quotes - Page 28

• The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

  Peter Piot

  World, Eras, Treatment

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• God intends and expects marriage to be a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman, based on the principles of biblical love. The relationship between Jesus Christ and His church is the supreme example of the committed love that a husband and wife are to follow in their relationship with each other.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Husband, Commitment

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• If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Sheep, Greek, Shepherds

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• Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  Walter Benjamin

  Truth, Writing, Self

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Forgiveness, Religious, Islamic

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• It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as a matter of fact, He has not done this; but rather has committed the preaching to man, telling them to go and disciple all nations. The responsibility lies squarely on our shoulders.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Dream, Lying, Responsibility

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• There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.

  Tony Campolo

  Scripture, Poor, Reaching

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• Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.

  Oliver Herring

  Moving, Ideas, Long

  "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

  Paul Eldridge

  Self Esteem, Trials, Crime

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• Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

  Questlove

  Classical Music, Concentration, Particular

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Hockey, Movement, Able

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• I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?

  Victor Serge

  Believe, Errors, Light

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• Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Blow, Vices, Strikes

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Genius

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• Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed.

  Paul David Tripp

  Bridges, People, Understanding

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• Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

  Edmund Clowney

  Ideas, Asking, Answers

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• One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

  John Armstrong

  Attitude, Ideas, Color

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• Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

  David Benatar

  Running, Long, Democracy

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

  Spalding Gray

  Mother, Suicide, Waiting

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• I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

  Sue Kelly

  Government, Valleys, Veteran

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• As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

  James W. Loewen

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Employee, Housing

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• When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

  John Powell

  Giving Up, Real, People

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that our Government is committed to providing opportunities for Canadians of all ages and all abilities to engage in sport and physical activity and to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle.

  Jim Flaherty

  Sports, Opportunity, Numbers

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• West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment

  Ray Wilkins

  Commitment, Ham, West

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