Quotes About Commitment

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.

To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.

He's marrying me to have a faithful servant, that's the reason all men get married.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn't afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

Maybe it's not all over: even after she's married, something between us will endure.

Yet here she was insisting that I stay with her, to keep me from who knows what stormy sea, from who knows what abyss or precipice, all dangers that at that moment were represented in her eyes by Antonio. But staying near her meant staying in her world, becoming completely like her. And if I became like her, who would be right for me if not Antonio?

If she wants Marcello Solara, I will resign myself. I love her so much that if she's happy with someone else I will withdraw and between us everything will remain as it is now. But if she wants me--if she wants me--there's no help for it, you must give her to me.

tal vez con los hombres las cosas solo pueden funcionar de este modo: vives con ellos un tiempo, tienes hijos y fuera. Si eran superficiales como Nino, se marchaban sin sentir ningún tipo de obligación; si eran serios como Pietro, no faltaban a ninguno de sus deberes, y en caso necesario daban lo mejor de sí mismos. Sin embargo, el tiempo de las fidelidades y las convivencias sólidas había pasado tanto para los hombres como para las mujeres.

If she had already yielded, if she had already swallowed that insult, her bond with Stefano must truly be strong. She loved him, she loved him like the girls in the photonovels. For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

Onun tatt??? haz, ard?ndan hala hissettiÄŸi, kusursuz sadakate neden olan ac? olmadan mümkün deÄŸildir gibi geldi.

So? Better to give up? No, the master answers, you don't have to throw everything away: it's arduous to speak truthfully, but you do your best.

how much work I've done and what a long road I've traveled. At every step I could have given in and yet I didn't.

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things.

Ahora la aterraba y la hacía sufrir la gruesa alianza que le brillaba en el anular. Incrédula, hizo un repaso de aquel día: la iglesia, el oficio religioso, la fiesta. Qué he hecho, pensó aturdida por el vino, qué es esta argolla de oro, este cero brillante dentro del que he metido el dedo.

On the train, we promised each other to become adults as no one ever had before.

Eu nu cheltui o lira daca nu cred ca pot sa scot o suta.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally

We have to work with consistency, with discipline, step by step, no matter how things are going around us, and be careful not to make a mistake, because we pay for our mistakes.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Das Schreiben ist kein Genuss. Es ist das Quälende. Etwas, was man tut, wie Kotzen. Man muss es tun, obwohl man es eigentlich nicht will.

Samo te smrt može sprije?iti da se posvetiš umjetnosti.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

nhi?u ng??i may ch? ?? tâm m?t n?a t?i công vi?c, n?a kia ph?n cho gia ?ình. m?t vài ng??i hoàn toàn ?? tâm ??n công vi?c, nh?ng nh?ng ng??i nh? th? không ph?i là nh?ng ng??i làm vi?c t?t nh?t.