Quotes About Commitment

She was in love with Adrian Rohan, and had been for years, and nothing, not his rudeness nor tales of his outrageous excess, nor all her own rational self-discourse, could change her.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

In my opinion," Red said, "going to Florida for the winter is kind of like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not paying your dues. Not standing fast for the hard part.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I would never write at all.

Willa said, "What…?" Then she said, "You're starting your job this June, though." "Right." "You want to get married in two months?" "Or it could be three, if you need more time to plan the wedding," he said. "You mean before I finish school?" "You can finish in California." "But at Kinney I have a full scholarship!" "So? You could get a scholarship in California, too.

Oh, I know!" Willa said. "Who's going to believe a couple would bother divorcing if they've only developed different hobbies or something?

Si je devais attendre d'avoir envie, je n'écrirais jamais.

You know we can't depend on Denny in any permanent way, Amanda told Nora, for instance. He might promise us the moon, but one day he'll up and leave us. I'm surprised he's lasted that long.

You can be in a good marriage and you can be in a bad marriage, and they can both be the same one but just at different times.

with your family, if with no one else, you have to keep on trying.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

But Willa said, "Talk what through? I'm marrying him and that's that.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

You must demolish the work and start over. You can save some of the sentences, like bricks. It will be a miracle if you can save some of the paragraphs, no matter how excellent in themselves or hard-won. You can waste a year worrying about it, or you can get it over with now. (Are you a woman, or a mouse?)

In short, I always vowed, one way or another, not to change. Not me. I needed the fierceness of vowing because I could scarcely help but notice..that it was mighty unlikely.

A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the middle of the night. He rose from his bed, took a shower, washed his hair, and shaved. He dressed completely, in a clean shirt, in polished shoes, a jacket and tie. Then he sat at his desk and wrote down his idea. A friend of mine asked him why he put himself through all that rigmarole. 'Why,' he said, surprised at the question, 'in honor of physics!

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do.