Quotes About Commitment

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

Strangely, while he was being continuously unfaithful himself, he expected—demanded—that she be totally loyal to him.

Peggy and Kelvin had one daughter—and then a second—and they proved to be good parents to Mariah and Taylor

Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

It's great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

She was my one true thing.

Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.

But once there were children, you couldn't zig where you had zagged. It was nothing but a parlor game, once you had children.

I can't quite recall, or evoke, that strange and powerful feeling that made me yearn to be with him every moment of every day, that made me think "till death do us part" sounded wonderful instead of simply like a very, very long time.

If a marriage is to endure over time, it has to be because both people within it have tacitly acknowledged something that young lovers might find preposterous: it's bigger, and more important, than both of us. It's love, sure, and inside jokes and conversational shorthand. But it's also families, friends, traditions, landmarks, knowledge, history.

Even in a marriage as truncated as her own—nine years, more or less—most of it is the mundane middle part. That was the part Peter couldn't bear. That was the part Rebecca had liked most.

had to say over and over to myself, 'Give up the drink or lose your soul! Give up the drink or break Polly's heart!' But thanks be to God, and my dear wife, my chains were broken, and now for ten years I have not tasted a drop, and never wish for it.

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.' 'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

Matrimony is a serious thing.

Should I shrink from the work that God had set before me, because it was not fitted to my taste? Did not He know best what I should do, and where I ought to labour?