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Quotes About Commitment

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.
~ E.M. Forster
You can't build a house on the sand, and passion's sand. We want bed rock …
~ E.M. Forster
I have shared with Alec,' he said after deep thought. 'Shared what?' 'All I have. Which includes my body.
~ E.M. Forster
marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
~ E.M. Forster
she wasn't convinced that love is necessary to a successful union. If love is everything, few marriages would survive the honeymoon.
~ E.M. Forster
Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others. -Bunny
~ E.W. Hornung
That settles it. I'm your man." "You mean it?" "Yes--for to-night.
~ E.W. Hornung
I'm on for any mortal thing!' My voice rang true, I swear, but it was the way of Raffles to take the evidence of as many senses as possible. I felt the cold steel of his eyes through mine and through my brain. But what he saw seemed to satisfy him no less than what he heard, for his hand found my hand, and pressed it with a fervour foreign to the man. 'I know you are, and I knew you would be. Only remember, Bunny, it's my turn next to pay the shot!
~ E.W. Hornung
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
~ E.W. Howe
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
~ Eamon de Valera
Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
~ Earl Nightingale
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
~ Earl Nightingale
Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
~ Earl Nightingale
A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.
~ Earl Nightingale
one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less
~ Earl Nightingale
There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.
~ Earl Nightingale
we can achieve nothing without paying the price.
~ Earl Nightingale
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.
~ Earl Nightingale
Sende kudretimi de?il, a?k?m? deneyece?im, yemin ettim. Bana en k?ymet bilen kalbinle gel.
~ Ece Temelkuran
ben de söz vermi?tim. biz bal?m, biz o sözleri verirken sizin ne kadar hakikatle dinedi?inizi bilmiyoruz.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Bilin ki büyük hayatlara niyet edenler büyük günahlar?n kefaretini göze almal?..
~ Ece Temelkuran
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
~ Ed Bradley
It is my greatest wish to be thought of as a godfather, a man whose duty it is to do my friends any service, to help my friends out of any trouble- with advice, with money, with my own strength in men and influence- To everyone at this table, I say your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends.
~ Ed Falco