Committed Quotes - Page 6

• We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Might, Sophisticated

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

  George Carey

  Believe, Issues, Ministry

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• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  Camille Claudel

  Paris, Parent, Rodin

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• We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

  Bianca Jagger

  Crime, Suspects

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• I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

  Will Estes

  Fields, Auditions, Shows

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• People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, People, May

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• I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

  David Antin

  Together, Kind, Process

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Paris, Community, Members

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• I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Good Work, Mainstream

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• You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves why it is, on September 11, 2001, before we were in Afghanistan, before we were in Iraq, he committed a dastardly attack killing over 3,000 people. I mean, this is not a matter of negotiation; it's a matter of victory.

  Michael Chertoff

  Believe, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Atrocities Committed, America

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

  Tacitus

  Giving, Trying, Faults

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.317, Modern Library

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Eye, Ideas

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Independence, Individuality, Causes

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Sin, Poet, Absolution

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Loon Lake: A Novel”, p.114, Random House

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• Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hurt, Vanity, Self

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• Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

  Woody Allen

  Crime, Capital Punishment, Mankind

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

  Robert Breault

  Skulls, Mind, Wonder

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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

  John Milton

  Kings, People, Derivatives

  John Milton (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the Commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of States, etc. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of Reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; /The reason of Church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes”, p.11

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• Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Details, Constitution

  RUTH BENEDICT (1934). “PATTERNS OF CULTURE”

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• If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

  Ted Allen

  Atrocities Committed, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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

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• Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wife, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.390

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