Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Merv Adams

We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.

Diablo Cody

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

DeForest Soaries

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

Dennis Anderson

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

Alan Cumming

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Al Gore

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

Al Gore

The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.

David Icke

The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

David Burtka

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

Benicio Del Toro

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Denis Leary

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

Denis Leary

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

Channing Tatum

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

Jane Austen

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Jane Austen

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

Jasmine Guinness

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Eric Lewis

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.

Donald Allen

We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why we're here.

Michael Fishman

We are practical people who will endorse people who work for working people - whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Ray Zaborney

Obviously, it looks good now, but we're going to keep working until Lynn Swann is the endorsed candidate.

David Dinges

My sense is that planned, permitted, endorsed napping by management is still rare.

David Coverdale

I can't endorse Napster because I'm a professional musician, but Napster did give me the idea that I can give something back to my supporters.

Michael Chertoff

From my own experience, I don't endorse those views,

Yemane Gebremeskel

If they think their invasion should be rewarded, it is outrageous. If they are throwing away this peace plan endorsed by the international community, then that means more war.

Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Jeff Swanagan

We want to be the world's most engaging aquarium.

Pete Marino

He's a fun an engaging personality. He has the right tone and voice to match the spirit of this event.

Wilford Kale

He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning.

Richard Castellini

It is a little juvenile, but it is a fun way of engaging in the brand.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Charles Kingsley

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Keyshawn Johnson

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.