Quotes About Commitment

I always say that love is like the meat in a pie," Freddy put in. "The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you've got a meatless pie, and what's the point of that?" "Why, Freddy," Minerva said, "that was almost profound.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway. Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery? It was hard not to smile at that. An excellent point. I think so.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Is love like a mineral, to be chipped away with every new problem or deficiency?

Loyalty is a tight weave, a heathery tweed of which love is only one fiber.

I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

Por última vez en la vida se preguntó si había malgastado su amor en una mujer que solo daba su amor hasta que llegaba el momento de retirarlo. Apartó el pensamiento de su cabeza. Había entregado su corazón esta única vez en la vida y se consideraba afortunado de haber tenido ocasión de hacerlo. La cuestión de si ella era digna de su amor carecía de sentido. Su corazón había contestado a esa pregunta hacía mucho tiempo

which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of lunacy, you spend more energy getting the damn things out than they give you when you eat.

Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered the station wagon of scepticism.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. —Interview on Bravo Channel, Feb. 14, 1991

He was her warrior to be loved and waited for and she would take what little of him she could get and wait for the rest.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

At the beginning of all love there is a private treaty each of the lovers makes with himself or herself, an agreement to set aside what is wrong with the other for the sake of what is right.

I will learn that the deepest meaning of love is renunciation, giving up one's own dream to fulfill the dream of the beloved.

when he took his stand on the draft, refusing to go to 'Nam, sacrificing his title, risking jail, putting it all on the line for a principle, he became, well, awesome. In those days the word still meant what it was supposed to mean, "inspiring great admiration/awe," and Ali did that.

No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.

Secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy.

Just keep your foot on the gas until you run out of road.

But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self.

secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy. Your religion is your business, and my religion, or lack of one, is mine. A willingness to build a wall of separation between church and state is what defines secularism—but, as you point out, behind that wall one may be a full-blown religious fanatic, so long as one doesn't try to impose the fruits of one's fanaticism on others.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.