“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.” HumansFacesLyingHorrorRacismConscienceVictimInjusticeCommitPrisonerOppressorsFacing The TruthSearsHuman Equality Author:Alveda King
“If Donald Trump thinks that just by being unpredictable that somehow he can have an impact, but not necessarily commit himself to certain things, that's not the way it is going to be read in foreign capitals. Foreign governments are going to take these things very literally and very directly.” ThinkingCommitUnpredictable Author:Geoff Dyer
“Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue.” PresidentSecurityCommitDialogueDiscussionResolutionFrankNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.” CharacterHelpingPastMovingMistakeCommitDesperateLiving In The Past Author:Samuel Witwer
“One day I may commit to a city and settle down and do the restaurant thing - when I'm ready and however and whatever the definition of a restaurant means to me and how I want to cook for people. Many lessons to be learned that are probably long overdue for me and I'm finding them through all channels of exploration and keeping all my doors open.” PeopleMeanLongOne DayCommitSettlingExplorationSettling Down Author:Kristen Kish
“It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.” GroupsMessagesClaimsDeedsCreditTerroristCommitOdd Author:Russell Baker
“I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of. When you're going to commit yourself to a series, to a certain degree, you're almost saying, "Okay, some of these opportunities, I'm just not going to be available for," so it has to be something that you really, really are passionate about.” FilmOpportunityProudOkayBlessedPassionateCommit Author:Laz Alonso
“I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayActionWaitingGriefInspireHatredCommitUncomfortableCourageousRhetoricConquestCautionHatefulDehumanization Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.” WritingHomeFallCommunityCreativeQuietSummerSpringWinterCommitCreative LifeQuiet Place Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.” HelpingActionBe GoodNeighborCommitTaking ActionGood Neighbor Author:Adrian Grenier
“We can't be naive and think we can go it alone; we must humble ourselves and commit to routine and collective actions. This is just one reason why I am thrilled to be working with the UN Environment as its Goodwill Ambassador.” ThinkingReasonActionEnvironmentHumbleCommit Author:Adrian Grenier
“I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how to commit to characters for a longer time, to confront the limits of my own capacities for attention and compassion. That's what a writing career does, in the best instance: it allows you to keep after what you can't do.” WritingCharacterMovingEffortAttentionCompassionNovelCommitArtisticAspiration Author:Steve Almond
“I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.” ThinkingCultureCommitAdulterySympathetic Author:Mary Gaitskill
“I've always been really selective. I just didn't have the right to be as selective in other years, I guess. It's very difficult to commit so much of your life to go shoot something that you think sucks, so I'd rather do nothing than go work on something that I really hate. Obviously, there are moments where you have to take jobs for money, everybody needs to pay their rent or whatever.” ThinkingMomentsHateDifficultCommit Author:Lizzy Caplan
“Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to divide the world into them and us. In prison, when people commit a crime and we put them away, they definitely become "them." We don't want to deal with it because they have chosen to step out of society, so we're going to keep them out. Even if they serve their time, we're going to make sure that, for the rest of their lives, they're going to be branded. I don't know how to do it in a different way, but I think it clearly doesn't work.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentCrimePrisonCommitChosen Author:Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
“It's really about committing super-hard to whatever you're trying to create. In essence, I'm just copying my favorite comedic actors, and it's the people who make me laugh the hardest who commit the hardest.” PeopleTryingLaughingMy FavoriteCommitComedicMake Me Laugh Author:Adam DeVine
“I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything. But I'd love to artistically commit to a project from beginning to end, which I think you can only do as a writer or director.” ThinkingActingForeverCommitNot SureFreedom To Choose Author:Francois Arnaud
“When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.” CommitNever Change Author:David Morse
“The best piece of business advice probably came from my mother, and she always just tells me to, you know, commit to it 100%. And to stay focused, and don't be lazy. I was never taught to really be lazy. If you're going to take on a project, do it 100%. Don't half - ass anything.” MotherAdviceFocusedCommitAssLazyStay Focused Author:Kim Kardashian
“I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.” HabitCommit Author:Marianne Faithfull
“Let's not be afraid of the use of color. Let's not be afraid of crazy art style. Let's not be afraid of the fantastical stuff, and I promise you we can make something that feels like an awesome shooter that you can market to the world, but that is awesome because it commits to what it is.” WorldArtCrazyStylePromiseCommitI PromiseShooter Author:Jordan Vogt-Roberts
“When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money." So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.” DifferentFatherCreativeCommitMaking MoneyCreative Life Author:Peter Vack
“The fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice. Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.” WarFightingJusticeHuman RightsTerrorismCommitWar On TerrorWar On Terrorism Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I found that I really enjoy helping people. I enjoy getting to know people and helping them in whatever endeavor they're trying to commit to.” PeopleTryingHelpingEnjoyCommitHelping People Author:Jason Bailey
“I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to feel at home in those characters. I wanted to feel like I could commit to them. And so much of improv is saying yes and committing, so I think that's where the improv came in. Even if I'm saying yes to the X across the room from me, or the tennis ball on a stick, I have to stay alive.” ThinkingImportantCharacterHomeCreationCommitTennisStaying AliveInception Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.” PeopleHomeEasyDifficultCommunityTechnologyTiredCommitHung Author:Willem Dafoe
“We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let your subtext show. That is the point of acting, is to be saying one thing and not be allowed by society or your predicament to show what you're really feeling. In a way, I think that's why the therapy generation has killed script writing, because all you ever get is people going, "Hi, I'm feeling really angry right now."” PeopleThinkingWritingFeelingsSchoolActingWorstDramaAncientCoachesCommitTherapyOffense Author:Olivia Williams
“A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship with them - as I'm thinking of what they will be like, they shift in and out of focus - they are a projection of some idea inside of me, even if a character is inspired by an actual person, I'm well aware that it is not that person. My job is to identify the essence of the character, and to bring them to life long enough to commit the acts, say the words or simply "be" in a way that allows them to affect and be affected by other elements and events in the imaginary world of a story.” ThinkingWorldLongEnoughCharacterFocusInspiredCommitImaginaryLong LifeImaginary World Author:Phoebe Gloeckner
“The way Spain has now behaved in Catalonia, after the referendum, is a total disgrace. If this continues, it will all reach the point of no return. You cannot start sexually harassing women and then break their fingers, one by one, because they want to have their own state. You cannot injure hundreds of innocent people, who simply don't want to be governed from Madrid. That's absurd and thoroughly sick! Spain used to commit holocausts all over what is now called Latin America, so it is 'in their blood'. But I don't think Catalans will allow this to be done to them.” PeopleThinkingDoneBreakSickCommitInnocentAbsurdLatinHolocaustDisgraceSexuallyLatin America Author:Andre Vltchek
“One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.” DecisionToughCommitTough Decisions Author:Carolyn Hax
“I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find out you're going to work about six months before you start shooting, and then there's prep and there's post afterward, and there's stuff to do, and then suddenly you've gone a year without directing. There's a part of me that has to not be tempted by that in order to commit more to the directing. Honestly, the big reason for me to act is to observe other directors and learn from them. That seems to be the biggest draw.” ReasonHonestlyCommitGoing To Work Author:Jodie Foster
“Putin's survival depends on land grabs of foreign territories. He needs new annexations. The annexation of Crimea has gained him much applause at home. But that will not last forever. The Western sanctions are beginning to take hold and the people are suffering. In order to maintain his popularity, Putin has to commit further international crimes. Otherwise he will be dead politically.” PeopleHomeSufferingForeverCrimeSurvivalWesternCommitPopularity Author:Arseniy Yatsenyuk
“At times, my parents said, "Let's get the child married," and I said a big no. Impossible. How could I be with a woman? I told them, "If you try to get me married, I'll get myself castrated and commit suicide." It was the best weapon. They were shocked, and they knew that if I decided, I would do it. I was selfish. I just wanted to live my life.” TryingChildrenParentImpossibleMarriedSuicideSelfishCommitLiving My Life Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.” CharacterTerribleCommit Author:Liao Yiwu
“Climate definitely interests the climate crowd at some science magazines, talks or blogs. Some blogs are amazing. They will post one comment about one graph of temperature records from tree rings and get over a thousand comments. Which is boredom so purified and crystalized it's in an unadulterated form that could make even a robot want to commit suicide.” InterestTreeSuicideRingsCommitBoredomComment Author:Randy Olson
“Either we all commit suicide together or guarantee institutions that provide stability for all. We need reforms that are enduring, so people aren't frightened. Our first year is going to be very interesting.” PeopleTogetherInterestingSuicideEndureCommitStabilityVery Interesting Author:Ashraf Ghani
“I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly a lot of people who are poor commit crime and they might not if they weren't poor. You understand the difference there? That's not news, but it comes up when I hear people say poverty doesn't affect crime - that crime is still going down in America even though the economy is bad.” PeopleThinkingMeanPoorPovertyEconomyCrimeCommitDesperation Author:Peter Moskos
“A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's family doesn't like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a "kitchen fire".” SuicideFeministCommitRanKitchenStanding OutBrides Author:Barbara Crossette
“In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.” PeopleWritingTryingCommit Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“One of two things when the guy you're dating isn't really ready to commit. He's an a**hole and he's cheating on you; bottom line he's an immoral dude. Or, he's too young. And the advice I give to everybody night in and night out is: Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.” MenGivingNightGuyAttentionAdviceDatingBottomCommitCheatingImmoral Author:Michael Catherwood
“We've been taught, "Deny yourself pleasure." But moderation is harder because it requires really committing to balance. When I tell my trainer I had a glass of wine, he'll say, "Liquid bread!" And I'm like, "Ugh, but it was a nice one." It's a matter of checks and balances. And I finally found out how to set myself up to succeed. But I still need to commit to it. And everything gets exponentially harder the older you are. Fifty is a terrifying number for some people.” PeoplePleasureNiceBalanceSucceedWineCommitModerationWine Glass Author:Brooke Shields
“Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.” CareSocial MediaTake CareCommit Author:Dwayne Johnson
“All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.” GivingSaidI CanRealGoneToughObligationCommitMusclesTough TimesDeadlineRebuilding Author:Christian Bale
“I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.” WayWould BeFiveCrimeMilesCommitCop Author:Denis Leary
“Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.” BigsSocialIssuesHonestHonestySexualityObligationCommitBeing HonestHonest With YourselfBe Honest With YourselfSocial Obligation Author:Ang Lee
“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.” IfsGivingI CanHandsRunningDealsBreakPaperCommitmentGive MeLawyerLoyaltyCommitShakesLocksLoyal FriendLoyalty And Friendship Author:Jerry Lewis
“There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.” PeopleCapableCommitGenocideDeep ThoughtBad People Author:James Lovelock
“For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.” MayDoeWarPoliticsTownsErrorsCommitConquerRuinedUprisingMedieval WarDemolish Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?” ThinkingSocialCreatingRemainsCommitBrandsSocial ChangePillarsPrivate SectorCasualtiesOutdated Author:Simon Mainwaring