#commit

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#half #her #i #just #knew

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#ago #commission #committee #findings #information

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ↗

— Matt Stone

#commit #decision #find #i #inconsistencies

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #appears #bad #boss #called

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#act #acting #advice #ass #believe

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#between #commit #difference #humans #murder

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#committed #eye #fade #faint #followed

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. ↗

— Eddy Grant

#artists #been #commitment #marketing #music