Quotessence
Home / Topics / Committed Quotes

Committed Quotes

Browse 2023 quotes about Committed.

Related topics

PeopleIfsCrimeMenThinkingWorldWayKnowsSinWantHas BeensBelievePersonsCommitmentCountryShouldSuicideNeedsStatesMayGivingWarFirstsYearsGovernmentMeanChildrenFeelsLongCommitHumansTryingActionLawChristianMurderNamesDonePresidentSaidIdeasJusticeLooksReasonWellsEndsRealValuesCommunityHeartIndividualMindDoeHardHelpingKindChristI CanRightsStillsCausesEvilAmericaNationsWholeMadeSocialTwoFightingOrderTodayUnitedWritingChurchEnoughFactsJesusLittlesSelfStrongPoliticalSoulVisionWould BeAtrocitiesDifferentI BelieveMatterOpportunityWantedCommitted RelationshipGoalHappensImportantJobsLeftMomentsMovingReligiousResultsmore

Committed Quotes

“If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.”

IfsThinkingMenWayHeartLongSaidSometimesMatterHappensEyeHalfSeaHonestMy HeartInvolvedAbsolutesStriveCommittedShipsFancySuspectsDictatorSuspicionStrifeVoyagesCover Ups
Book:Moby-Dick
Create image

“And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.”

IfsThinkingChildrenMomentsSimpleViewsCreativityMagicMissingPatternsCommittedPoint Of ViewInnocentInnocenceFadesLockedRespondingJudgmentalFreshnessBlockedNever Fade
Author:Michael Jackson
Create image

“You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.”

PeopleFeelsHumansDoeStillsDesireLeftHurtHavensReadyWasteStrongerIntelligentVictimConstantSorryInjusticeCommittedExtremesStrikesHealReasonableWasting TimeScarDisguiseAvengers
Author:Paulo Coelho
Create image

“I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.”

IfsWantFeelsWellsMightGirlEmotionTroubleThousandNormalDancingCommittedExtremesMilesMoodUnhappyJust BeingInappropriateSaddestEcstaticThousand MilesBeing Unhappy
Book:Namedropper
Create image

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”

IfsFeelsHas BeensSeemsPastMy OwnSinEffectsProduceTearsSorrowTragedyCommittedIgnorantMourningWeeping
Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Create image

“Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse than this in my billion or so years of existence – the first murder man committed was one brother against the other for no other reason than that one petty emotion. Jealousy turns to hatred which then turns to poison. It infects and it destroys until it eats someone alive. (Deimos)”

MenYearsFirstsBelieveDoeReasonTurnsEmotionExistenceAliveBrotherHatredMurderCommittedExtremesBillionsPoisonBelieve In MePettySour
Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Create image

“He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed.”

KidsLastsFeltDarkNumbersSkinsFingersCommittedExposedDelicatePearlsCountingGlovesWristsRelievedMaidensDepravedStockingsGarters
Author:Loretta Chase
Create image

“We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.”

WayGivingFeelsHeartStillsEnoughHappensPainJoyOur LivesDependsTasteCommittedObstaclesFeel GoodEnjoymentSpiteRemovePlagueShattered Dreams
Author:Larry Crabb
Create image

“At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.”

KnowsWritingFirstsIdeasInspirationFormDesireNightPleasureParticularMastersDifficultyBoundsAffairCommittedDelightObsessionEnthusiasmIdlenessLove Affair
Author:Natalie Clifford Barney
Create image

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”

MenWritingHumansHas BeensMadePainFacesJoyNightPeaceSoundSecretExistenceMorningCryTearsMonthsSorrowLowsHatredEarsMurderRaisesMereCommittedAgonyGlancesAnguishVibrationsEarly MorningRobberySufferersHurryingNo PainPeace And JoyKept SecretsLife Is Pain
Author:George Eliot
Create image

“It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.”

MenFirstsOrderFightingSocialPrinciplesReturnSpeechMethodCommittedVainTotalitarianismFreedom Of ThoughtAdoptingSocial Order
Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
Create image

“But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.”

ThinkingWorldHelpingUseLyingSecretPracticeSuccessfulThis WorldNeededDisciplineCommittedDevotionCarrieLiarsAbandonedContrastAdoptedConstancyKeeping SecretsWedlockFabricateCredoCommitted RelationshipGood Liar
Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin
Create image

“The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.”

KnowsGivingFirstsHeartDoeSoulSelfActionApproachRespectResourcesDeterminationCommittedSelf RespectHeart And SoulOppressorsSource Of StrengthNew Self
Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
Create image

“The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.”

MenRealBeautifulDesireRoomsDealsEmotionCrimeColdGreenCalmCommittedExcuseLustCommitImaginarySilkRedeemingWholesaleUnforgivable
Author:Lois McMaster Bujold
Create image

“Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.”

WorldLongEyeSinFiveFocusHairShadowCommittedBreatheClockFixedColourNecksBrownPairsChocolateDesksCoalHandsomeMarineScopeAlarmsKnockingCharismaDrawersScoundrelsBrown EyesBinocularsJawline
Author:Lori Wilde
Create image

“by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.”

ThinkingMenYearsBelievePersonsPastHappenedHeroCircumstancesYears AgoTwentiesLifetimeCommittedEightMonstersImpressionMake You Think
Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
Create image

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.”

WaySchoolJobsNumbersPlansBenefitsLaborToolsEncouragementInfiniteProfitCommittedCreditProtectionLawyerReliefProgressiveMinimumWagesTaxationPublic SchoolMinimum WagePlunderSubsidiesTariffsProgressive Taxation
Book:The Law
Create image

“You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.”

LittlesI CanBodyLeftSleepForgetMoralLeavingFishesCommittedSmellLustNever ForgetAppetiteBellyDrainedUnrelentingMorbidity
Author:Clive Barker
Create image

“Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.”

IfsThinkingHumansWellsEarthHumanityNamesQualityTakenCrimeDegreesCommittedEnormousJudgedTruthfulExtensionsConstructsDeitiesMistrustDown To EarthHuman Qualities
Author:Wole Soyinka
Create image

“Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”

KnowsMindLooksMaySaidFeelingsTurnsHouseMy OwnSpecialSubjectsCrimeMinesCommittedCurseIsolationDo You KnowImpressedWatsonImpunity
Book:The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)
Create image

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”

ShouldWritingLittlesPersonsLongBitsCan DoLittle BitClothesDressesCommittedEveningAshamedPetBad ThingsHouseholdEmbarrassedVocabularyDressingsDressing UpLong WordsCuteness
Book:On Writing
Create image

“Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.”

PeopleKnowsWorldLongReasonLightActionDecisionCommitmentResponsibleChaosCommittedArguingContradictoryBeing Responsible
Author:Alan Lightman
Create image

“It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?”

MenYearsFirstsLongHas BeensHateSinTenMajorsTestsSevenCommittedRedemptionFewerFifteenRuinedDeathbedFifteen YearsLove Or HateFifteen Years Old
Book:The Heart of The Matter
Create image

“Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.”

MenInspirationalSeemsEffectsCrimeMoralityCriticismCaughtCommittedCriminalsPunishmentChecks
Book:The Winter of our Discontent
Create image

“I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.”

PeopleTryingCountryStatesLawForceUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionIndependenceCommittedDedicatedDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceShariaSharia Law
Author:Herman Cain
Create image

“When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.”

IfsKnowsMenWayWantLongHas BeensMadeBookEnoughHelpingUseShowsFormHateWhiteRaceWatchesAliveCrimeHatredMirrorsPressesCommittedFinishedSymbolsI Want YouWhite ManConvenientUnspeakableFacing The Truth
Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Create image

“That’s not the only reason I’m stayin’, chica. I can’t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkin’ . . . should we tell your parents now or later?” “Tell them what?” I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, “That we’re in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship.” “We are?” “Sí. And when I get out of here, I’m gonna fix the door to your car.”

ShouldI CanReasonEyeAsksParentWalksDoorsCarSeriousRight NowKissingCommittedLegsWideKiss MeBustedCommitted Relationship
Author:Simone Elkeles
Create image