Quotes About Commitment

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

And then Matilda answered her own question because the truth was that Mary-Alice had no idea. "If a man is going to abandon a woman, he will do it for other reasons. He will not abandon her because he gets married." Mary-Alice

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant." — Sir Winston Churchill

not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

You're my wife," he said. "I want to take care of you, even if that means someday seeing you to the train.

you have to do it till you're done

Marilynne Robinson

Well, you know, that's good of you to say, but it's not always wise to make promises. There can be a lot more involved in keeping them than it seems at the time.

He had learned that determination is suspect, more so as more effort is involved in it.

Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul.

I'm only interested in an art which can change the ideology of society....Art which is only committed to aesthetic values is incomplete.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

The meeting would be safe as a wedding.

I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

Un hombre que no pasa el suficiente tiempo con su familia no merece ser llamado hombre.

Once anybody makes up their mind to kill then there's no other problem. That's the hard part, making up your mind.

Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes.