“To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.” WarActionDoubtMilitaryParticularSeriousCastsCommittedManhoodNegotiationSeriousnessUnpatrioticMilitary Action Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed” I CanPresidentSeriousPreparedCommittedUniqueness Author:Dan Quayle
“No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.” PoliticalBeliefNationsToo MuchSeriousCommittedNationalismHistorian Author:Eric Hobsbawm
“Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.” IfsWellsLongHomeMightLiteratureCasesHeardSeriousJudgingPeriodsHusbandRelationCommittedDivorceTrialsOutsidersRoofParticipationImmoralAdulteryProsecutorHammeredBefore MarriageCommitting Adultery Author:Kenneth Tynan
“I believe that anyone who is serious and committed to pay the price of learning, discipline and taking the right actions in the right order and at the right times can achieve and become financially successful. In addition, having perseverance and relentless pursuit are great qualities ... that will help.” BelieveHelpingActionOrderI BelievePayQualitySuccessfulAchieveSeriousDisciplinePerseveranceCommittedPursuitRight TimeRelentlessPay The PriceRight ActionGreat QualitiesRelentless Pursuit Author:John Assaraf
“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSchoolChristianGuyHateFallReadingTalkingStudyHappenedSeriousHigh SchoolDatingI HateFalling In LoveCommittedNineStealingHeyOverwhelmedThis GuyBible StudyFourteenNine YearsNashvilleFreshmanHey YouOlder SisterMimiCutest Author:Amy Grant
“I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.” CommunityActingSeriousCommittedEmmaCambridge Author:Tom Hiddleston
“This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.” WarCountrySeriousCongressCommittedAggressionDeclarationEngagingDeclaration Of War Author:Ramsey Clark
“Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.” PeopleFirstsWellsWarCountrySeriousFirst TimeKillingCommittedNeighborRussiaControlledTerritoryAggressionTroopsUkraineEuropean CountriesSerious Business Author:Daniel Fried
“Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release, they're ushered into a parallel social universe in which the civil and human rights supposedly won during the Civil Rights Movement no longer apply to them.” MenHumansUniverseSocialBlackRightsCrimeMovementSeriousHuman RightsCommittedCriminalsCivil RightsReleaseParallelsArrestedCivil Rights MovementBrandedFelons Author:Michelle Alexander
“We found ourselves becoming more serious about playing music than our friends were - or just more committed and had more meaningful connections. I realized then that I would probably be playing in bands for the rest of my life; that that's what made me happy. Even though it's awesome that people are paying attention - buying records or selling shows out - I never have that conscious thought about, "this is going to be the band that will tour the world."” PeopleWorldAttentionSeriousConsciousCommittedI RealizedMeaningfulSellingPay Attention Author:Mikal Cronin