Top 1200 Committing Crimes Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.