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“Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.”

Years Five Rights Thousand Twenties Committed Protection Faithful Five Years Denied Notable Twenty Five Gary

Author:Mel White

“We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.”

Ifs Opportunity Freedom Half Citizens Equal Affair Average Committed Propositions Equal Opportunity Polling

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”

Today Lasts Chance Poor Century Entrepreneur Committed Architecture Celebrate Entrepreneurship Enterprise Substitutes Developers

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.”

Ifs Inspirational Spirit Winning Grows Memories Color Excellence Endure Committed Championship Will To Win

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.”

Today Society Crime Victim Committed Imprisonment

Book:The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.”

People Long Ideas America Difficult Policy Committed Alternatives Repression

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.”

Individual Causes Crime Unique Organization Committed Dump

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.”

Heart Doe God Eye Earth Christian Culture Evil Religious Lord Standards Committed Range Commitment To God Standards Of Living Culture Change Engulfing

Author:David Jeremiah

“Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.”

God Christian Religious Prayer Answers Committed

Book:Why Revival Tarries

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.”

People Knows Millions Crime College Committed Obnoxious

Author:Grover Furr

“Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."”

Men World Humans Children Wisdom Kids America Opportunity Clear Equal Committed Wit Every Man Around The World Brotherhood Men Women Equal Opportunity

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Ends Country Play Hands Seems Individual Voice Gone Too Much Scene Committed Crafts Developing Flats Right Time Many Hands

Author:A. R. Gurney

“. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework. . . . I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about.”

People Knows Want Writing Littles Ideas Whole Wanted Felt Powerful Happened Quiet Happenings Dating Committed Tiny Unhappy Crafts Little Things Indifferent Framework Unsaid Interchange Nonverbal

Author:Tom Noonan

“We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)”

Wells May Soul Universe Jesus Grace All Things Sick Committed Enormous Sinner Righteous Assault Trophies God's Grace All Things New

Author:Philip Yancey

“While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.”

“Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.”

Way May Matter Hard Done Enough Seems Sports Simple Mistake Practice Skills Committed

Author:John Kessel

“Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!”

People Inspirational Committed Appointments Parlor

Book:Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.”

Hard Play Lasts Desire Belief Sports Half Player Team Hard Work Beats Fairs Committed Where You Are Quarters Team Player

Author:John Kessel

“A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.”

Dream Age Sex Sports Leadership Levels Talent Serious Skills Commitment Determination Excellence Athlete Committed Endeavor Dreams Come True

Author:Carol Mann

“Governor Romney says he's against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine... Mr. Romney, my family is just as real as yours.”

Thinking Children Real Mother Father Sex Mines Deserve My Family Committed Romney

Author:Zach Wahls

“When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.”

Men May Stills I Can Chance Air Balls Committed Legs Over It Twists

Author:Julius Erving

“If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.”

Ifs Crime Committed Administration

Author:George W. Bush

“I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.”

Knows Feels Looks I Can Problem Eye Today Knowing Iraq Committed Solve Afghanistan Troops Max

Author:George W. Bush

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.”

People States Reading United Worry United States Rights Concerned Committed Terrorist Als Al Qaeda

Author:Dick Cheney

“After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.”

“Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.”

Men Has Beens Ends Action Choices Born Path Committed Thrown Existential

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.”

“We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.”

Looks Helping Government Letting Go Committed Reports Hook Pins Civil Society

Author:Mary Robinson

“And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.”

Persons Moments Justice Support Responsible Committed Terrorist Agents Fbi Terrorist Attacks

Author:Robert Mueller

“I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.”

Writing May Ends Names Influence Century Students Originals Errors Committed Graduates Multitudes Essays Twentieth Century Exceed Analogies Graduate Students Munich

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.”

Fall Loses Behinds Committed

Author:Crystal Gayle

“It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.”

Heart Hard Committed

Author:Deborah

“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.”

“Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go!”

Strong Ready Lows Committed

Author:Brett Hoebel

“We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.”

Needs Soul Body Spirit Worship Committed Fellowship Subservience Fellowship With God

Author:Larry Norman

“How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!”

Remember Asks Solutions Asking Suicide Committed Dare Ask Me

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.”

United Europe Committed Romania

Author:Victor Ponta

“And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.”

Knows Fear Goal Numbers Groups Decided Threat Committed Worried Destructive Capability Terrified Small Groups Disruptive

Book:The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

“And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.”

World Nations Middle Committed Monsters Driving Terrorist Radical Conquer Islamic Destroying Eastern

Author:Jerry Falwell

“No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal.”

Reason Committed Violent Horrific Over The Edge

Author:Jim Steyer

“If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.”

“Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Self Whole Stories Memories Happened Events Illusion Photograph Committed Albums Opening Episodes Recalls Examining Snapshots

Book:The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

Source: The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

“As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.”

Thinking Should Ends Universe Worry Committed Irrelevant Solar System Entropy

Author:Bruce Hood

“A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.”

Ifs Self Forget Mistake Attitude Criticism Mark Forgiving Committed Gentleman Forget It Self Criticism Attitude Towards Life Can't Forgive

Author:Anuj

“As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.”

Needs Giving Lord Safe Giving Up Safety Committed Treasure Commit Our Lord Relatives And Friends

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.”

People Men World Would Be Christian Lasts Evil Social Church Movement Committed Various Humanitarian Cures Sincere Humanist Dedicated Uncommitted Social Evils

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.”

Moving Rich Tradition Committed Sparks Wnba

Author:Candace Parker

“You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.”

Said Ego Connections Committed Rooted

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.”

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