#commit

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#being #boy #brought #change #committed

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins. ↗

— Joan Didion

#angels #anyone #ask #asked #committed

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#basis #commitment #crap #football #gonna

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#always #commitment #effort #excellence #focused

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. ↗

— Roger Stone

#committee #ever #nobody #statue

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital punishment #commits #inflicts #murder #punishment

You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose. ↗

— Courtney Kirchoff

#happiness #love #purpose-in-life #life

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#political-philosophy #commitment