Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felicity Huffman

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

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.

Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Francoise Sagan

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

Irving Kristol

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

Emeril Lagasse

Because of my restaurant schedule and other commitments I have, I shoot up to 12 shows in a week. It's taped live.

Samuel Bodman

By and large, they seem to be understanding that we have a situation where there needs to be more oil rather than less oil in the world. There seems to be a commitment to it.

By nearly a 3-to-1 margin Americans overwhelmingly support the USF and Congress' continued commitment to keep all Americans connected. This support speaks volumes for the positive things that the USF program has done and all that it can continue to do to keep Americans connected.

But we also have to be prudent going forward in terms of what long-term spending commitments we can make,

Hopefully, Japan will meet the commitment it made earlier in the year.

He stressed to us a real commitment to customer service and developing the full potential of employees, ... He places a heavy emphasis on people.

He's made a commitment and stuck with it. He was on our state dual team. I think that kind of hooked him.

He's a natural leader. He leads by example first, so all the hard work and commitment that he's made to the sport of wrestling, he's put right back into the team.

Dave Tippett

Games come down to little things and commitment and willing to jump into battles. There wasn't enough commitment (Saturday).

Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor on sets, Ive always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

Jeb Bush

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

Jennifer Granholm

With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future

Jeff Bezos

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jeff Pulver

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

Jeff Miller

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The outcome of the referendum does not affect those of my officials who have British nationality, since they work for Europe and not for the UK. They have made a major contribution to our common European project, and I will continue to count on their talent and commitment.

Gary Lineker

Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

Erich Fromm

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Harry Chapin

If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Harold Geneen

Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

He's questioning our commitment while his hypocrisy stinks to high heaven on all of his promises that he's breaking.

I don't think I'm getting the commitment, dedication and the team work that we need to come out with... I don't think I'm getting that from those (senior) players.

I don't know if all the talk the past two years has gotten into his head, ... But I think he's been probably stronger than a lot of us, a lot of his backers. A lot of people that he maybe expected to hold the line with him maybe caved in a little bit. If everybody was as strong about the commitment as Eddie is, then none of these questions would have ever popped up.