Famous Quotes & Sayings

For over three years, state leaders have stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the majority of Texans who want the state to make a real commitment to supporting and improving our children's schools.

Randy Carlyle

For some of these players who haven't played for some 16 months, it shows that there's a commitment to preparation and that's always a positive.

Imre Lakatos

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Kevin Nealon

A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

Ken Blanchard

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Kevin McCloud

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Ken Robinson

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Gary L. Francione

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Gary Hamel

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Jerry Bridges

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Jerry Bridges

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

Jim Dale

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Lakshmi Mittal

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Lucinda Williams

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

Liya Kebede

In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

Hillary Clinton

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.

Hillary Clinton

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Evan Bayh

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.

Eva Longoria

Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.

Frank Church

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

David Trimble

If there is a real commitment, then getting rid of the weapons could not possibly be a problem,

Martin O'Neill

It has happened on more than one occasion now where the Rangers game gets dwarfed because of commitments elsewhere,

I think New York knows that the Clintons are fighters. This is not a woman who turns tail at the first sign of trouble. She's committed to this and she's in it.

I think New York knows that the Clintons are fighters, ... This is not a woman who turns tail at the first sign of trouble. She's committed to this and she's in it.

I just don't see the same commitment that we had early in the season. That's coaching. It's something I'm doing wrong.

Tim Wiese

I just don't understand. You stop all the shots and then at the end you commit a beginner's mistake. This type of error happens just once in a lifetime.

Hosni Mubarak

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration,

I questioned if he'd be ready but by the end of the third day he had it down. It shows the level of commitment and work effort he has.

I put together a committee to review everything, so I wasn't in a little room all by myself making all these plans. They worked for 18 months on the draft, so it wasn't fly-by-night.

Anthony Dixon

I read the paper one morning after Eason committed that they (Eason and Derrick Davis) were going to be a two-headed monster. I'd love to have a great running back up there with me because you just can't do it by yourself. But I was just going to go wherever I chose.

Jimmy Carter

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.