Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

DeForest Soaries

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

Dennis Anderson

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

Ed Fallon

To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.

Ed Koch

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

Eliza Dushku

TV can be a long commitment.

Edward Kennedy

That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

Ayrton Senna

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

Ayelet Waldman

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

Cameron Diaz

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

Clark Blaise

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

B. C. Forbes

Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.

Frank Luntz

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Donald Evans

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Pete Hegseth

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We plan on vigorously defending the case. We are very proud of our franchise system, which has been recognized repeatedly for its commitment to quality franchising.

Sonny Perdue

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.

Vint Cerf

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.

Alcee Hastings

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Alec Baldwin

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Alexander Haig

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

We want to be in Sarasota the rest of our lives. There's no problem with a long-term commitment on our part.

Bill Owens

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

Brandon Flowers

I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

Paulo Coelho

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Andrew Lansley

You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care.

Andy Whitfield

For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.