Quotes About Commitment

Better far Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

How glad I shall be if it is true that Tennyson is married! I believe in the happiness of marriage, for men especially.

with not an instant out of the four-and-twenty hours to call my own. It appeared, at the last, that Wilson would have a drawback to her enjoyments in having the child, and I did not choose that: she had only a fortnight, you see, after five years, to be with her family. So I took her place with him; it was necessary, for he was in a state of deplorable grief when he missed her, and has refused ever since to allow any human being except me to do a single thing for him.

I wanted to make a full letter of it; and Robert always says that it's the bane of a correspondence to make a full letter a condition of writing at all. But so much I had to tell you! while the mere outline of facts you had from others, I knew. Which is just said that you may forgive us both, and believe that we think of you and love you, yes, and talk of you, even when we don't write to you, and that we shall write to you for the future more regularly, indeed.

Mr. Browning knew that he was asking to be allowed to take charge of an invalid's life — believed indeed that she was even worse than was really the case, and that she was hopelessly incapacitated from ever standing on her feet — but was sure enough of his love to regard that as no obstacle.

Miss Barrett, for her part, shrank from burdening the life of the man she loved with a responsibility so trying and perhaps so painful, and refused his unchanging devotion for his sake, not for her own.

one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.

You commit yourself completely to something and then you take your eyes off it for an instant and it's gone. Like it never was. Like you can't even see the evidence of the thing that was there, that you trusted your weight, your honor, your life, your heart to. I've seen some shit, let me tell you.

She's my whole goddamned world.

Thy King needs thee to shape what will follow, Will. There's nothing thou canst do to help Marlowe now. They will have already begun.

Vincent's loyalty to the job had always been unimpeachable…but Kusanagi-Jones was about to gamble that his loyalty to the partnership would outweigh it.

I'm an M.D. A shitty one, but sometimes shitty is better than nothing. I'll do what I have to do.

I'll say this Wainwright. When she chooses a side, she doesn't screw around.

Beloved," he said. "Claim me, and I will do your will. I am yours by right, through the line of your foremothers and forefathers. Only let me own you. Perceval. My darling.

All for Queen and country, and not even honor for themselves.

Will is for England," he said with a tired shrug. "And I am for Will.

No. He would. He would not repudiate Kit, on his deathbed for any reason.

For Leah. Yes. Because for her, I would crawl through fire.

I took an oath. If it is not inviolable, then I am useless. If I am not inviolate, the magic is not inviolate.

Once you signed the contract, you would never be alone again.

You commit yourself completely to something and then you take your eyes off it for an instant and it's gone. Like it never was. Like you can't even see the evidence of the thing that was there, that you trusted your weight, your honor, your life, your heart to.

Even when the world ends, you still have to get up and plow the next morning.

It's why I want us to be very careful what we commit to while we're dealing with this station. They make bad governmental choices, and by patronizing them, we're just validating their choices.

Surely her sacrifice, my sacrifice, could not be in vain.