Quotes About Commitment

Well, this is it...I choose you...Come what may, you are what I choose.

There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was always someone else you could call, some other question you could ask, something else you could buy. You could put every worry, every desire, every whim, every moment of your waking day into a wedding, and it was big enough to absorb them all.

There are some people who fall in love over and over." Tibby nodded, understanding the particular melancholy as it revealed itself on Lena's face. "And there are others who can only seem to do it once.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

I agreed sincerely and ardently

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Take yourself seriously.

Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.

Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.

If you wait long enough, someone had told him once, you settle into being married. Miss

There are no martyrs only volunteers.

Back then, I would have begged forgiveness from my friends in the BSC. I would have tried like crazy to balance my time between school, the club, Robert and my family. I would have gone on feeling guilty about my boyfriend at BSC meetings, embarrassed about one set of friends while I was with the other, but I wasn't feeling apologetic now or guilty or ashamed.

Hello, the all-weather Baby-sitters Club! We sit in the sleet, we sit in the freezing rain …

However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.

You're right." I stood up and grabbed my coat. "I quit the Baby-sitters Club!

I'm not going to be able to go with you this afternoon," I said. "Oh." She didn't seem crushed, but I could tell she wasn't overjoyed, either. "Well, I guess I can find enough stuff myself." "Okay," I said. "Will you be at the meeting?" Kristy asked. "Yeah." "See you." " 'Bye." It was mid-winter, but it felt chillier inside than out. *  *  *

Mary Anne schedules our baby-sitting jobs.

No ripping the barre out of the wall.

What was going on here? Had the Baby-Sitters Club suddenly dropped to bottom priority? I wanted to jump up and scream at them.

I knew when we changed our schedule, something like this would happen. Stacey rolled her eyes. Kristy, one thing has nothing to do with the other. Remember when Monday, Wednesday and Friday used to be untouchable? I asked. We set up our appointmnets and stuff around meeting times. Gladly. Because we knew we had to. That was why I didn't want to change Fridays. Once you do something like that, you're saying the club isn't that important. Now look what's happening: a chain reaction.

Our clients depend on us, I shot back. That's why they keep calling back. Our motto was, one call, seven sitters, remember? Not one call, four or five sitters who bothered to show up and a couple of others out shopping.

Mary Anne checked the record book. "Claud," she said, "you're free that night. Want the job?" "Of course!" I replied.

will help you at night and while you're at school, but the rest of the time, he is your responsibility." I nodded. "I can do it. I want to help the bird grow up. By the way, you don't have to get me a pet now. The bird will be my pet. You know why? I had just decided

I'd be able to see Alex every single day.

even wore something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.