Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it.

Richard M. Nixon

The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.

Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Rebel Wilson

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

Robert De Niro

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

Tracy Kidder

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

Valerie Jarrett

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

Treat Williams

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

Steve Vai

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

Vince Lombardi

Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

Vince Lombardi

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

Vince Lombardi

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Rebecca Solnit

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Rebecca Solnit

While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

Sam Altman

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Rocky Marciano

There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.

Robertson Davies

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

Will Smith

The road to success is through commitment.

Will Smith

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.

Warren Buffett

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Walter Cronkite

Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

Wendy Wasserstein

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Wayne Swan

I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

Salma Hayek

After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

Wanda Sykes

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

W. H. Murray

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Tyrese Gibson

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

Twyla Tharp

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

William Barclay

Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.

Thomas Leonard

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

Thomas Lennon

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

Thomas Kuhn

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science, often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments. As a puzzle-solving activity, normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.