Quotes About Commitment

You love her?" Natches frowned, an edge of disbelief in his voice. Love. Son of a bitch. That word was being thrown around like a bone to a favorite hound. "As much as I can love anyone," he finally stated wearily. "I'm committed. That's going to have to be enough for you." He was going to have to find a way to make it enough for Janey.

Kelly should have been your sister, Rowdy. If I hadn't been so stupid, I wouldn't have lost Maria all those years ago. She chose the lover willing to love just her, rather than his own selfishness. Willing to give her all of himself, without the childish need to have it all his own way.

Lest any idle person might think that I have had time to write plays during the last few years I may mention that the first act of The Tents of the Arabs was written on September 3rd, and the second act on September 8th, 1910. The first and second acts of The Laughter of the Gods were written on January 29th, and the third act on February 2nd and 3rd, 1911. A Night at an Inn was written on January 17th, 1912, and The Queen's Enemies on April 19, 20, 21, 24, 28, 29, 1913.

Jack said, "No more buying books from Amazon till I've read the ones on my shelves.

I deserve passion, she said. I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..

never cheat. It's not just a betrayal of the person you promised to love, honor and cherish. It betrays the family unit, too.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.

Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.

The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.

I'll go see her tonight,' I said. I felt I was a person of my word, and by saying something I could make it so. It was less like integrity perhaps and more like magic.

I'm going to marry you till you puke.

She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother

Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Wherever we have the essential elements of a covenant, namely, contracting parties, a promise or promises, and a condition, there we have a covenant

Like the shaman, a teacher has to have a clear vision so that a student can come to believe that he or she sees something real that can be shared. The teacher's message must be "I know something you don't know, something you don't have, but I am committed to sharing it with you and bringing you on this journey.

every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. But sometimes the petals fall away and the roots have not entwined.

Love is what is left when the passion has gone

every man needs an obsession in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.