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“There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.”

“I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.”

Stills Action Social Commit Positively Robbing Anti Social Social Action

“Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.”

Way Giving Should Firsts Desire Wish Effort Attitude Compassion Creatures Disease Treats Calm Commit Firm Willingness Physicians Disposition Living Creatures

Author:Sun Simiao

“People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.”

“It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.”

Praise Commit Provoking Admirer Watchers

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.”

Men May Would Be Remember Political Courses Evil Politics Natural Acting Society Politician Behavior Normal Paid Oneself Commit Hypocrisy Cant Leather Tribute Cynic Man Of God

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.”

Men War Used Evil Given Amount Ill Deeds Commit Used To Be Folly Ill Will

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.”

Men Needs Humans Law Natural Liberty Rights Amount Aids Contrary Every Man Commit Owners Legislature Natural Rights God And Nature

Book:Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books

Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books

“Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.”

Men Crime Commit Petty Scruples

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.”

Philosophy Literature Moral Cease Commit Uplifting Dull Moral Philosophy

Book:The Kingdom of the Wicked

Source: The Kingdom of the Wicked

“No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.”

Men Errors Commit Consensus

Book:Josiah Royce: Selected Writings

Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings

“When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.”

Character Honor Deeds Commit Witness Honour Thyself

Author:Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.”

People Trying Differences Teach Learning Missing University Committed Commit Our Future Your Future Absorbing Sponges

Author:Jim Rohn

“While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.”

Powerful Attitude Design Building Happenings Commit Block Loving Life Building Blocks

Author:Susan Jeffers

“If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.”

“Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.”

Violence Commit Wrongdoing Mesh Recoil

Book:De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro: II

Source: De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro: II

“He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.”

Ifs Party Crime Hero Commit Resistance Arrested

Book:Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon

Source: Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon

“The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

People Ifs World Way Littles Doe Powerful Compassion Generations Thousand Hundred Commit Behave Changing The World Most Powerful Little Things Smallest

Book:The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life

Source: The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life

“Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.”

Thinking Should Force Commit Expensive Kindles

Book:The Way the World Works

Source: The Way the World Works

“I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.”

Years Persons School Gay Suicide Commit Miserable Yale Freshman Freshman Year

Author:Larry Kramer

“People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.”

People Way Evil Goal Achieve Deeds Commit Evil Things Indigo

Book:On Evil

Source: On Evil

“I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.”

Way Giving I Can Able Commit

Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.”

Children Parent Poverty Crime Difficulty Independent Commit Target Transition Homeless Foster Children Single Parent Independent Living

Author:Charles Bass

“I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.”

Men Children I Can Commit Children Love

Author:Lara Flynn Boyle

“One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.”

Writing Believe Problem Process Commit

Author:Steven Bochco

“If a guy won't commit, he's a player.”

Ifs Guy Player Commit

Author:Kristin Cavallari

“Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.”

People Values Successful Commit Successful People Value Of Time

Author:Raymond Arroyo

“There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started.”

Way Want Body Easy Commit Workout Easy Way

Author:Tracy Anderson

“Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!”

Giving Mind Kids Jobs Effort One Thing Blood Tears Giving Up Commit Sweat Hoping For The Best Full Time Jobs Work Effort Sweat And Tears Blood Sweat And Tears

Author:Dale Archer

“If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Doe Lying Cases Fine Degrees Messages Red Murder Court Caught Commit Perjury

Author:Johnnie Cochran

“You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.”

Want Play Character Commit

Author:Stockard Channing

“Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.”

Government Sound Economic Policy Areas Independence Financial Commit Reform Euro Euro Crisis

Author:Mario Draghi

“There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.”

Want Reading Generations Depth Size Phones Screens Commit Data Length Mobile Evaluate Mobile Phones Cellular

Author:Nick D'Aloisio

“I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.”

Ifs Believe Children I Believe Situation Crime Depends Despair Stealing Hungry Commit My Children

Author:Karin Fossum

“I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”

Ifs Thinking Way Play Roles Comedy Listening Drama Approach Instinct Commit Dramatic

Author:Will Ferrell

“In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.”

Cases Suicide Commit Apology

Author:Chuck Grassley

“In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.”

Needs Play Character Stories Film Series Commit Open Minded

Author:Johnny Galecki

“Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.”

Littles Sin Dating Commit Mortals Gin Mortal Sin

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.”

Men Years Law Order White Laughing Streets Crime Beats Murder Commit Highways Collars Robbery Mayhem White Collar White Collar Crime

Author:Waylon Jennings

“We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.”

Men Faces Law Order Crime Commit

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.”

Ifs Crime Messages Punishment Commit

Author:Benigno Aquino III

“We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.”

People Behinds Crime Citizens Commit Privacy Anonymity Right To Privacy

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.”

Kind Hard Months Six Commit Six Months Here And There

Author:Joanna Kerns

“One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.”

People Knows Issues One Thing Position Commit Senators Ohio

Author:Josh Mandel

“If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.”

Ifs Shows Decision Principles Constitution Court Dues Commit

Author:Elena Kagan

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