Quotes with commit

  • We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
  • Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
  • No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
  • A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
  • Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
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  • William Shakespeare But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mack R. Douglas The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Voltaire Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sir Edward Coke Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
    Sir Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge, and politician
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  • Henry David Thoreau If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • E. B. White A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bob Dylan A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Voltaire As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Robbins Commit to CANI! Constant And Never-ending Improvement
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Allan Sloan Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
    Allan Sloan
     
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  • Brian Tracy Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Simone Weil Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bill Cosby Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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