Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Nethercutt

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

George Meyer

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

Hillary Clinton

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.

Hillary Clinton

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Your partnership with Habitat is a lifelong commitment, it's a lifelong friendship.

You never like to hear about any reports of this nature. The Iraqi police need to uphold the highest human rights standards that is expected by the international community. That's what the United States is committed to. The Iraqi training is ongoing and that will continue to be one of the highest priorities.

You never know when it comes to the tournament. We knew we weren't a definite lock and any time you put it in the hands of a committee you never know what's going to happen.

George Will

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

You need someone with energy for a large district, with the vision to keep us moving forward. Someone who demonstrates a commitment to the community like Dr. Witherspoon did day in and day out and someone who understands the issues that face an urban district.

You needed to have Italian heritage and give them a two-year commitment to playing in Italy. We all see this as a great opportunity.

Your commitment is an expression of pastoral concern for every human being who may never become a means, but must always remain an end.

Cassandra Clare

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

George Eliot

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Jack O'Connell

I hope this program to turn around the Oakland Unified School District will provide a model for innovation and commitment to our students and their families,

Henry Hyde

I have pledged to try to finish this inquiry by the end of the year, ... However, if we continue to revisit this issue over and over again, the Committee may be delayed in completing its important work.

Norm Dicks

I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years.

I made a commitment to do it. It's for a good cause.

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

I'm a damned fool. I wanted to commit suicide

I knew that the only way that he would be taken down just because of his attitude, his demeanor that night. I figured it was going to be either him committing suicide, suicide by cop or just as it actually was with the shootout.

I knew that she had committed welfare fraud and perjury, ... and I wanted her on the witness stand. I didn't want anything done to discourage her from testifying.

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.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.

If I can do this, it'll be a commitment.

If I am going to commit tax money to it, I want to make sure it is something worth preserving. Just because it is old doesn't mean it is qualified.

Steven Adler

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew

Steven Pinker

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

Steven Pinker

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Steven Pinker

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

Susan Jeffers

Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.