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“Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.”

Crime Taxes Victim Dollars Committed Sentences Spending Fewer Law Enforcement Preventing Death Sentence Tax Dollars

Author:Gil Garcetti

“...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.”

“For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.”

Thinking World Reason Care Young Girl Individual Feminism Committed Various Outlets

Author:J. Courtney Sullivan

“The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.”

Writing Air Influence Effects Committed Poison Destructive Wickedness Profane Deliberation Giddy Pestilence Draught Libertine

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live...And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we live - our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to them either as we found it or better than we found it.”

“We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)”

Want Hard Turns Clear Cutting Honor Sticks Committed Chiefs Headings Kilts

Author:David Weber

“A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.”

Life Heart Doe Waiting Ability Wonder Vision Doubt Conditions Limits Miracle Committed Almighty Indecision Indecisive

Book:The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.”

Causes Technology Design Theory Committed Math Practicals Abstract Academic Engineering Curriculum Grounding Merging

Author:James Dyson

“There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.”

Walks Secret Committed Formulas Walking With God

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?”

Passion Commitment Committed

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .”

Love Sides Dark Personality Succeed Difficulty Committed Defense Arise Vulnerable Relax Dark Side Committed Relationship

Book:Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation

Source: Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation

“You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism.”

“Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?”

Care Three Asks Individual Player Universal Foundation Excellence Committed Caring Coaches Employee Teamwork Employers I Trust You Do You Care Can I Trust You

Author:Lou Holtz

“He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".”

Ifs Men Littles Sin Responsibility Tree Creation Ready Capable Understood Died Committed Indian Charm Missionary Convincing Presumption Missionary Work

Book:The Recognitions: A Novel

Source: The Recognitions: A Novel

“I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.”

Men Motivation Dad Husband Strive Committed Fighter Better Man

Author:Andre Ward

“If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .”

Ifs Self Growth Expression Personal Growth Committed Dimensions Self Motivation Discovering Exploring Self Expression Continuous Improvement Always Room For Improvement Intellectual Growth

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.”

Thinking Writing Believe Particular Ought Paper Don't Believe Committed Nonsense Thank God Sensibility Declaration

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art”

Way Art Figures Committed Decades Senior Vocation Exemplary

Author:Seamus Heaney

“I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.”

Believe Ends I Believe Issues Modern One Day Slavery Committed I Believe In Scourge Modern Slavery

Author:Barack Obama

“In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.”

Ifs Giving Stories Happens Order Committed Access Warrior

Author:Debbie Ford

“True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.”

Feelings Decision Love Is Committed Thoughtful Overwhelmed True Love Is

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Be committed to the relationship you have with yourself. We get so committed to other relationships, but often sort of toss ourselves away. We get around to ourselves only now and then. So, really care for who you are. Be committed to loving yourself. Take care of your heart and soul.”

Heart Soul Care Self Love Who You Are Committed Take Care Love Yourself Now And Then Self Care Heart And Soul Loving You Loving Yourself Toss

Author:Louise Hay

“Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).”

Ifs World Should Sin Pleasure Results Lord Judging Overcoming Sake Committed Sensual Repentance Hardship Judged Distress Reversal Sensual Pleasure

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.”

Interest Economy Unique Size Committed Mediums Farms Agriculture Strengthening Family Farms

Author:Sue Kelly

“This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.”

States America United United States Rich Iraq Committed Oil Kingdoms Liberation Republic Aggression August Kuwait

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed."”

Trying Mean Success Committed Really Mean Buisness

Author:Robin Sharma

“What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.”

World Ideas Today Past Individual Changed Committed Changing The World Dedicated World Today

Book:Point of the lance

Source: Point of the lance

“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.”

Ifs Feels My Own Sin Tragedy Committed Mourning Weeping

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.”

Law Purpose Committed Offense

Book:The Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: The Letters of Ayn Rand

“We become whatever we are committed to.”

Committed

Author:Rick Warren

“The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.”

People Giving Real Facts Problem Belief Vision Mass Gun Mere Committed Shooting Discussion Interfere Superiority Gun Control Real Problems Mass Shootings

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.”

Ifs Should Hard Violence Crime Drug Prison Committed Non Violence Usage

Author:Ron Paul

“Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.”

Giving Doe Feelings Christian Heaven Church Christianity Grace Special Intention Committed Kingdoms Occasions Consumers Transformed Grace Of God Special Occasion

Author:Dallas Willard

“The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.”

Heart Lovers Despair Committed

Book:Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

Source: Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.”

Persons Ordinary Extraordinary Committed Extraordinary Things Ordinary Person

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.”

Committed Reputation Maintaining

Author:Jim Rohn

“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.”

Needs Enough Nations Justice Dog Injustice Committed African American Uncomfortable Serving Others Fleas Biting

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.”

Self Moving Values Community Commitment Mirrors Committed Opposition Traps Self Absorbed Shared Values

Book:Shame: The Exposed Self

Source: Shame: The Exposed Self

“Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.”

Children Ends Country States Can Do United Leader Poverty United States Demand Committed Wealthy Backwards

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.”

Justice Leader Economic Movement Building Mass Committed Critical Activist Nonviolence Transforming Economic Justice Critical Mass Refills

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.”

Causes Team Achieve Bigger Committed

Author:Simon Sinek

“Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

People Waste Who You Are Committed Wasting Time Rapper Misunderstanding Explaining People In Your Life Don't Waste Your Time

Author:LeCrae

“You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps”

People Way Firsts States Care Messages Flow Safety Wings Committed Setting Settings Outcomes Pleasant Distraction Competing Who Cares Valve

Author:Seth Godin

“Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.”

Way Looks Mean Enough Creative One Thing Fashion Standards Intelligent Raises Committed Consistently Flexible Enriching Enrichment Raise Your Standards

Author:Tony Robbins

“The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly”

People Reality Vision Seeing Currents Committed Learning Organization

Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

“Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.”

Government Force Nations Security Honor Grateful Iraq Committed Accomplish Missions Thanks Troops Caution Precision Our Troops

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.”

Ends Mother Belief Catholic Moved Committed Buddhist Catholicism Disillusioned Disillusion Roman Catholic

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.”

“There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.”

Men America Objects Pure Committed Motive Devoted Assembly Constitutional Convention

Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787

“Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

Ifs Love Life Done Happens Meditation Incredibles Committed Love Life

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

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