Quotes About Commitment

true-love knot, pierced with Cupid's arrows and over them the motto "What we resolve.

To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.

Remember the soldier in the Civil War who wore a Rebel jacket and Union trousers—he was shot both in the front and the back! You must choose which side you're on! You are either a servant to Jesus Christ or a slave to Satan! The choice is yours.

For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts—meant to be broken.

The Abrahamic God's most characteristic attribute, as depicted in the Bible, is that of making and keeping promises. This is a God who can always be counted on to bring about a new future even when it seems there are only dead ends.

Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?

Keep your head down. Avoid the limelight. Get on the right committees. Go to hearings. Do your homework. Build up a substantive portfolio. And never forget the care and feeding of the people who sent you here.

On losing a player due to academics—"Our team traveled 25,000 miles, then he fails geography.

Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Hold their noses to grindstone.

Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

During the eighteen months that followed Halley's visit, Isaac worked day and night on the book. He didn't mind the sacrifice. A living, growing thing took shape before his eyes. Never mind that he ate irregularly. Never mind if he kept at it eighteen hours a day. The book would be worth all the effort.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work

Take a stand and make a mark.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

Challenge Question What role do you let loving play in your making a living?

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.

I couldn't give as good as I'd gotten. Why? Plain and simple: I hadn't gotten into politics to serve the Republican Party. From the very beginning, I've told people the Republican Party was my vehicle, not my master