Quotes About Dedication

It's my job to run after her." "Without backup?" "I am the backup.

That's just perfect. I hung up and crossed my arms over my chest. When your butt is permanently attached to a chair, the only thing you can do is sit and hope to look professional.

I'm with you because you're smart and beautiful, and you are not like anyone I know. No matter how hard things are, you throw yourself into them. During Midnight Games you walked into a cage with trained killers not knowing if your curses would work, because you knew other people were counting on you. That's what you do. You step up.

This is not an heirloom," Alessandro said with grim sincerity. "I didn't take it from my family. I designed it for you and had it made. Nobody else has ever worn it and if you say no, nobody ever will.

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

In this life each of us must decide three things for ourselves: who to worship, who to marry, and who to serve.

Just staying sharp. Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.

It's okay," I told him. "I know." His voice was quiet. "I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to. I closed my eyes and whispered, I'll meet you halfway.

My lady," he said quietly. "Never do that again," she whispered. "Stay with me," he asked. "Where would I go?" He smiled then. She rolled her eyes and went back to the rites.

I don't come from money, Curran said. His voice rolled, filling the space. Everything I have I made with my own two hands, and I have to work hard every day for it. Even Daniels? another merc asked. That got some giggles. Curran cracked a smile. It was a bright, infectious smile. Especially Daniels. I work to keep her daily. Otherwise she wouldn't put up with me.

You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be." Wilmos

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Nothing is work when it's done with love.

And this great love makes you both ruthless .

Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.

Living like this is a full-time business.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Talent is only a starting point.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.

Per me [la creazione] è come una giornata d'uragano quando la tramontana s'abbatte fischiando dai monti. L'arte per me è un tormento, angoscioso quando il lavoro va male, estasiante quando va bene: ma sempre mi possiede senza scampo. Al termine della mia giornata, sono un guscio vuoto: tutto ciò che v'era in me, è passato nel marmo o nell'affresco. Quindi non mi resta più nulla da dare altrove.

He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.