Top 671 Committing Adultery Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do

Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential.

But last summer I signed a contract extension and that was me committing my future to Fulham. I live around here, I'm settled. I love it.

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.

It is difficult to believe that parties are unaware of the crimes that their M.P.'s are committing. But there is no effort to take action against them, till they are caught and publicly exposed.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

[about Planned Parenthood] It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it's committing to just one thing.

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.