Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naeem Khan

Pakistan's commitment to counter-terrorism is unquestionable and it is complete,

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Tie Domi

My opinion is that a whole new (executive) committee has to be selected. (One) that hires a professional search team (to find a replacement for Goodenow) and go from there. And Ted can put his name in the hat. This is not about Ted Saskin. It is about doing things properly and 700 guys being happy at the end of the day.

Jenny Mollen

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

Nancy Brown's commitment to personal growth and education make her a role model for all administrative professionals.

Megan Follows

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.

Arthur Blank

Longer term, trends underlying the home improvement industry remain favorable for continued sales and market share growth at The Home Depot, ... We remain committed to our goal of 23 to 25 percent earnings per share growth for fiscal 2001.

Markets tend to be very uneasy during the election year. One of the problems is that no one wanted to make a big commitment without knowing who was going to be at the helm.

Market speculation about an end to US interest rate rises has risen after the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee meeting from March.

John Miller

Matt (Lang) and I are extremely committed to this area. It would be great if Marietta could become the little Hollywood of Ohio.

Matt and the team have stayed committed and focused and have gotten us this far, somewhere at times we didn't think we'd be.

Marijuana users do not commit crimes, other than using marijuana.

Mary's commitment to her sport is just as strong today as it's ever been, and her results prove it. What she accomplished on the court last year was truly remarkable. She is an exciting player to watch and has always been a crowd favorite here at the Cup.

Martin's verbal commitment contradicted what they put in writing.

Jay Feaster

Martin St. Louis is the heart and soul of our hockey team, ... Dating all the way back to the summer of 2004, there was never a moment when we were not firmly committed as an organization to getting Marty signed long-term.

Amanda Palmer

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

Conrad Black

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

The executive committee did it without Kirby knowing. You don't surprise Kirby with many things on the Mercer campus.

Jonathan Kozol

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

Well the ten commandments is not the law of the land obviously if one covets they are not committing a crime under Indiana law.

Scott Campbell

What if somebody decided to name you Hortense, and you always hated that name? The name isn't you. It's something somebody else picked for you. We were named arbitrarily by a committee in 1951.

Liane Moriarty

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

Debbie Ford

You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.

Doug Scott

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

Donald Johanson

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Cynthia Lennon

When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

David Filo

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

David Foster Wallace

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

David Simon

It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

David Platt

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

David Livingstone

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

David Hackworth

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

Dallas Willard

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.