Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonam Kapoor

I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.

Thomas Carlyle

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Tony Campolo

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Tony Campolo

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Steven Spielberg

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

Steve Buyer

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Shirley Hazzard

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Pope John Paul II

Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.

Pope Francis

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Pope Francis

Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

Ralph Ellison

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

James Murdoch

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

Stephanie Coontz

A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.

Stanley Hauerwas

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

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.

Thomas Carper

In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

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.

Rick Warren

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Rick Warren

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Rick Warren

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Rick Warren

We become whatever we are committed to

Rick Warren

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

Rick Warren

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Rick Warren

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

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.

Warren Farrell

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.