Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gray Davis

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

M. Scott Peck

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

M. Scott Peck

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

John Boehner

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

Dick Vermeil

You could take every player on our roster and put them through his workouts and they would all play longer. He didn't get older and work less. He got older and worked harder. That's what enabled him to play so long. To me, he's a tremendous example of what you can do if you're totally committed to doing something.

You commit two unearned runs and lose by one - you can do the math on that one.

You committed a very serious crime. If you had done this 10 years ago, it would have been a serious crime...but to commit an offense like this after 9-11 is particularly disturbing,

David Peterson

You can't win a regional game and commit that many turnovers.

Max de Pree

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

Matthew McConaughey

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.

Clive Owen

I'm not normally one to commit to a long-running series.

Geno Auriemma

I'm glad that the realization has hit that this is it, that this is your last go-around and you've got to get things done. Right now you'd say that Will has really made a commitment to herself to being one of the better players at her position in our league.

I'm not going to make a commitment on any name just yet.

Kirk Ferentz

The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

Julia Cameron

In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

Josh Earnest

We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and pursuing a stable relationship with their neighbors. Instead, we've seen a lot of provocations and a flouting of international norms and obligations.

We've got all of our committee that is going to recommend ratification, which is going to happen in the next five days.

We will be continuing with that fact-finding as the committee goes forward.

We have a commitment from AT&T that we will continue, as we have historically, to be a very engaged partner in the community. From a culture perspective, these companies really look alike.

This week's data is proof that the hawks in the Monetary Policy Committee are wrong, giving gilts support this week.

This weekend, the search committee took a look at all those applications and pared things down. We weighed the criteria we had and scored them. That helped us eliminate some people that really didn't meet what we were looking for.

This team represents a new vision and new direction for the studio, ... We are committed to the growth and success of Sony Pictures Entertainment and to making Sony the global entertainment and communications company of the future.

This was a total team effort. We had a number of committed kids in the program and parents who supported them all the way.

Paul Goodwin

They just love the game. Love to train, love to get better. Some players come out and practice by themselves. I just see a real commitment to the game.

It was hugely helpful to be able to tell people they could stay with their spouses, with their children. I shamelessly used that argument. Everyone was committed to showing that this could be done.

It was just hopping with Hawaiian entertainment, and I don't see that major commitment to offering that kind of entertainment anymore.

Jim Dale

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Ten years later, my wife and I have no idea why Brett committed suicide.

Michael Douglas

Tens of thousands of lives have been saved and millions more improved as a result of the decision and commitment of this man and the inspiration that he leads.

Tens of thousands of Californians are contributing to his campaign, and the treasurer and his family are committed to winning.

Sarah Lacy

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.