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“The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.”

People Ifs Mind Reason Behinds Violence Terrible Spring Ordinary Murder Commit Sensible Depressing Mundane Massacres Acts Of Violence

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.”

People Weakness Suicide Commit

Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

Knows Way Young Choices Lost Careers Fields Possibility Corners Commit Mates You Choose Implications Choices You Make

Author:A.S.A. Harrison

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.”

People Ifs Should Hate Killing Commit Undermining

Author:Philip K. Dick

“You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.”

Inspirational Action Sides Wealth Greater Influence Commit Folly Invites Taking Action Dry Land

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”

Moments Moving Growth Change Creation Oneself Commit Providence Starting Anew

Author:W. H. Murray

“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.”

Happens Success Change Inspiring Gratitude Commitment Intention Things Happen Commit

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“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.”

Ifs Mind Wells Heart Sin Education Duty Commit God Love Cultivation

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.”

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.”

Play Music Murder Jazz Musical Commit

Author:Duke Ellington

“The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.”

Men Reason Feelings Government Action Influence Son Conscience Slave Contrary Commit Patriotism Patriot Immoral Free Man Scoundrels Confessing Fatherland

Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!”

Bigs Government Political Politics Pieces Politician Commit Pie Delay

Author:Huey Long

“People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.”

People Way Matter Use Death Religion Sin Pleasure Hell Century Crime Example Depends Eternal Blind Punishment Commit Insane Invites Traps After Death Preventing Barbarians Committing Crimes

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.”

Mind Humans Religion Moral Violence Benefits Excuse Commit Motive Tangible Atrocities Acts Of Violence

Book:Virtuous Violence

Source: Virtuous Violence

“The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.”

Firsts Different Opportunity Winning Sides Term Effort Business Secret Focus Tough Leaving Commit Short Term Millionaire Good Opportunity

Book:Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

“I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.”

Persons Country Causes Favors Commit 4th Of July

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary

“Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

Inspirational Mind Motivational Learning Valuable Commit Assets Lifelong Lifelong Learning

Author:Brian Tracy

“Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.”

Inspirational Quality Commit

Book:What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

Source: What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

“Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.”

Love May Wisdom Happens Spirit Attention Mistake Meditation Eternal Yoga Clouds Commit Innocent Destroyed Realization Innocence Wellness Covered

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.”

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

Men Evil Plans Glory Hatred Words Ugly Commit Life Changing Bombs Plot Good Man Shouting Evil Man

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.”

People Important Quality Successful Commitment Direct Depth Commit Proportion Romantic Love Duration People In Your Life Love And Marriage Wholeheartedly

Author:Brian Tracy

“The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.”

People Want Should Littles Long Practice Stupid Ready Should Have Suicide Genuine Commit Golden Bridges Gates Stupid People Cords Bungee Golden Gate Bridge

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.”

“Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.”

Humans Enough Dream Courses Left Goal Sin Worry Taken Perfection Nuclear Commit Bombs Utopian Abolition Nuclear Bomb

Author:Jonathan Schell

“Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.”

Men Made Soul Today Able Lasts Religion Sound Century Prove Equal Degrees Suicide Atheist Accomplish Surface Statements Commit Angle Interiors Theologian Nineteenth Century Feats Triangles

Author:Carl Sagan

“I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.”

Thinking Doe I Can Might Games Sports Worry Player Football Harm Commit Do The Best Injured

Author:Lionel Messi

“How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?”

Ifs Men War Values Commit Valour

Author:Torii Mototada

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”

Men Law Natural Liberty Rights Ought Morality Equal Equality Commit Aggression Equal Rights Limited Government Inalienable Rights Legislative Branch

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.”

People Hands Nations Prayer Effort Generations Praying Raises Conservative Commit Hand In Hand Franklin New Generation Raise Up

Author:Jonathan Falwell

“Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.”

Needs Jesus Individual Christ Prayer Forget Leader Praying Hero Jesus Christ Commit Never Forget Flawed

Author:Jonathan Falwell

“We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.”

World Justice United Defeat British Terrorism Commit Around The World Resolve Allies

Author:Doc Hastings

“One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.”

People Needs Giving Feels Action Work Movement Greatness Lifetime Satisfied Commit Educated Philanthropy Giving Money

Author:Peter Drucker

“Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.”

Men May Self Suicide Defense Commit Suicidal Self Defense

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.”

Justice Bears Social Justice Injustice Burden Commit

Author:Hosea Ballou

“To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.”

Men Persons Justice Cases Atheism Crime Diversity Social Justice Committed Positive Atheism Foolish Commit Doctrine Wicked Persecution

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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.”

Children Ideas Death Felt Dying Periods Suicide Longing Defense Commit Temptation Protest Within You Suicidal Deep Within Longing For Death

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.”

Pure Suicide Commit Suicidal Idealist

Author:Wu Guoguang

“God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.”

Ifs Action Dark Sleep Responsibility Morning Air Blood Bed Rain Suicide Warm Commit Gray Thick Veins Suicidal Begging Withdrawing

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.”

Knows Want Inspirational Should Believe Motivational Eye I Believe Wish Healthy Should Have Suicide I Believe In Commit Well Being Suicidal Thoughts Through The Eyes

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.”

Ifs Political Politics Politician Suicide Come Up Commit Presidential Candidates Suicidal Unconventional Politicians And Politics

Author:E. B. White

“How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?”

Dating Suicide Commit Lazy Suicidal Online Dating

Author:Judy Tenuta

“The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.”

Giving Humans Stills Political Race Activity Program Give Me Difficulty Suicide Educational Commit Human Race Reconcile Political Life

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.”

Values Passion Learning Add Lifetime Educational Commit

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“The best revenge is the massive success.”

“The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it.”

“I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.”

Dies House Waiting Suicide Plant Commit Suicidal

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!”

“I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.”

I Can Plans Drink Catholic Suicide Drinking Alcohol Commit Beer Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Brewing Beer Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking

Author:Jack Kerouac

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