Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's committed to working with us to reduce his management staff,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had committed himself to the following of a grail.

He has a lot of personal issues he needs to deal with and can't commit the time this year.

He is and always will be an example for everyone who loves sport, for his commitment, honesty and talent.

He is genuinely committed to diversity on the federal bench. It was explicit. He wanted his staff to find qualified women and minorities.

Shane Gibson

He is deeply committed to protecting and preserving the freedoms we enjoy as Canadians...keeping in the strictest confidence the nature of his military responsibilities and past experiences while serving our country.

Zach Thomas

He has showed he's committed to the team, and he's a good guy. He doesn't want it to be about him. He wants it to be about the team.

John Jay

He has reaffirmed his commitment. There are some things Jason and I needed to address. Jason is back with the program.

Felicity Huffman

He'd never shot a movie before in his life, so the learning curve for him was phenomenal. He didn't know a close-up from a two-shot. But what he did know, and was doggedly committed to, was this story.

Having Eugene really helps us show our commitment. He's in a unique situation in that he owned a junior team before he owned an NHL team. He has a lot of credibility.

Bob Arum

He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.

Steven Blum

We can handle the overseas war-fight commitment and still defend our homeland and support the Department of Homeland Security simultaneously.

This wasn't just a job for Wendy. We hoped to have a person heading up the program who made this a real commitment in their lives. With Wendy, we got more.

Robert Conquest

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Richard Paul Evans

Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

Russell Crowe

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Tryon Edwards

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Rhonda Britten

When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

Rhonda Britten

Invest in everything, attach to nothing.

Rhonda Britten

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

Willie Aames

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

William J. Brennan

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.

William J. Clinton

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

William J. Clinton

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

William J. Clinton

This is a good deal for the United States, north Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. ...Only as it does, so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

William J. Clinton

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

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.