Famous Quotes & Sayings

The members of the committee will be knowledgeable and will know what is expected of the program and will help identify the new coach.

The measure of a nation's commitment to the sanctity of life is reflected in its laws and to the extent those laws honor and defend its most vulnerable citizens.

The mental part is hardest, because I still think the game should be played a completely different way. But I've committed myself to play within our team structure, so to do that and to fight your true feelings is very difficult at times.

Gordon Brown

The memorial committee received over 10,000 suggestions for memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

The market has a very strong undertone to it and would seem reluctant to surrender too much of its recent gains. Very strong and robust turnover yesterday ventures to suggest some serious commitment to the market place.

The market is also waiting nervously for the release Thursday of the US housing starts data for any fresh trading leads, after having largely priced-in the likely rate hike at the March Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

John Dewey

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

John Carroll

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Joel Fuhrman

When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

Jimmy Swaggart

Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us in Christ.

Jimmy Smits

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Francois Fillon

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

the least likely place a person would pull into to commit a crime.

James Taylor

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

James Murdoch

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

Joan Didion

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Joan Didion

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Jim Irsay

In a way, it's a great thing that I have the opportunity to stand at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Indianapolis, and stay right here, ... People say that reality is in the footsteps, and not the words. That, as much as anybody, gives you a chance to show your sincerity and commitment, and what you're all about as far as leaving a legacy.

Jim Morrison

The time to hesitate is through.

Eric Shinseki

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Eric Liu

Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

John McCain

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

John McCain

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

Jim Rohn

Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.

Joel Osteen

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

Joel Osteen

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Lawrence Lessig

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.

Leon Wieseltier

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Julianne Hough

So I hope to stretch my acting skills. I got to a point in my dancing where I felt like I did so much hard work and I achieved a lot of great things, and I wanted to try something else and put that same kind of commitment that I did into my dancing into something that I was also passionate about. I had so many opportunities with my dance and now I'm just excited to get better as an actress.

Lynn Abbey

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Norman Lamm

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.