Quotes About Commitment

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Robin Atkin Downes

The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.

They say your muscles have memory. Once you've trained your arms to swing a tennis racket or your legs to ride a bike, you can quit for a while - years even - and all it takes is picking up a racket or jumping on a bike again and your muscles remember what to do. They snap right back to performing the way you taught them. The heart is a muscle, too. And I've been training mine since I was a kid to fall in love with one particular person.

It doesn't matter, Cat. Really. I wouldn't have even entered the science fair this year if Mr. Fizer didn't require it." "But you knew that's the only thing his class was about - that's the whole point of it. WHy did you even take it in the first place?" Matt brought his lips against my ear. "Because I knew you'd be in there.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,' 

Mine," he said. Grabbed at a passing thought. "Love you. Marry me.

Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie." Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Reed. I owe you big-time." That's the kind of friend she is.

And let nothing stop us or slow us in our quest! We leave immediatly!" "Can I pee first?" "...We leave after Sheemie pees.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it.

To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain

No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that?... I will always need you. I will always want you to be part of my life. Do you understand that?

It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

I promise you, I won't let you die." "Make me no promises that can break us both, Fitz.

What you're looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without that person. Good times or bad. That having that person around makes whatever you're going through better, or at least more tolerable.

My grandfather used to say, "Start out dealing with a man the way you intend to go on dealing with him." I think the same may be true of dragons.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

The same thing I live for are the same things I would die for.