Commit Quotes - page 2

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. (Mark Twain)
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. View quote
John Woolman
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it. View quote
George Carlin
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
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. View quote
Gore Vidal
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. (Henry Miller)
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. View quote
Edward Coke
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. View quote
C. P. Snow
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. View quote
Jim Morrison
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. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. View quote
Sam Walton
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. View quote
Lysander Spooner
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. View quote
Anthony Powell