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Quotes About Commit

When I took ownership on the defensive end, I made a commitment to myself to basically cancel out what was happening on the offensive end.
~ Ben Wallace
If a man in love commits some misdeed ... he will suffer much more at being observed in it by his love than by his father.
~ Phaedrus
Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can't think of good enough reasons why it might not be a good idea.
~ Philip Kerr (author)
As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
~ Richard LaGravenese
It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
~ Ike Skelton
I wouldn't do go to another band.
~ John Deacon
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
~ Quentin Crisp
Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.
~ Peter Jackson
As president, I will only nominate judges - including Supreme Court justices - who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women's reproductive rights.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't mind," said Redhead recklessly, "what crimes I commit, as long as they've got a sensible purpose. Wanton injury and destruction, of course, are just juvenile." "Of course," said the Master, digesting this remarkable statement. "Then let us be adult at all costs.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
if ever you want to commit a murder, the thing you've got to do is to prevent people from associatin' their ideas. Most people don't associate anythin'—their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Mon ami ,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.
~ Agatha Christie
The very simple-minded have often the genius to commit an uncomplicated crime and then leave it alone.
~ Agatha Christie
A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.
~ Agatha Christie
Do you know, Poirot, I almost wish sometimes that you would commit a murder." "Mon cher!" "Yes, I'd like to see just how you'd set about it." "My dear Japp, if I committed a murder you would not have the least chance of seeing—how I set about it! You would not even be aware, probably, that a murder had been committed.
~ Agatha Christie
Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it," said Mrs. Mitchell. "You are right," said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. "Not so is an English murder committed." "You're right, sir.
~ Agatha Christie
Video piracy is among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who work in the film business. Adverts telling you not to commit video piracy are among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who don't.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
~ Charles de Gaulle
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
~ Hun Sen
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
~ Samuel Johnson
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
~ Stella Gibbons