Quotes About Commitment

I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take.

I will love you all my life and even beyond that," he said. "You will always be my only love.

It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.

I can't, she whispered. I am so afraid, Robert. I am afraid to love again. I know, he said, but I am afraid not to. Look ahead, Elizabeth. Ten years. Twenty years. Thirty. Can you bear to think of the emptiness? I cannot. I need you and I believe you need me just as much. Come back to me, love. Please.

I am here to be used, Holmes.

Use your powers! Go to the scene of the crime! See the people concerned! Leave no stone unturned! In all your career you have never had so great a chance of serving your country.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation. I shall be delighted. You don't mind breaking the law? Not in the least. Nor running a chance of arrest? Not in a good cause. Oh, the cause is excellent! Then I am your man. I was sure that I might rely on you.

On the whole, he thinks that Barclay's devotion to his wife was greater than his wife's to Barclay. He was acutely uneasy if he were absent from her for a day. She, on the other hand, though devoted and faithful, was less obtrusively affectionate.

People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Every step I have taken has been to bring myself closer to you.

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Ne?u re?i da sam imala priro?enog dara za ples ili za bilo što drugo, ali sam zasigurno bila spremna uporno raditi dok ne postignem cilj.

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

A faith is not acquired by reasoning. One does not fall in love with a woman, or enter the womb of a church, as a result of logical persuasion. Reason may defend an act of faith-but only after the act has been committed, and the man com­mitted to the act.

That's only a little thing . . . but . . . that's the kind of guys I had. They didn't die; they killed themselves for each other. I mean that exactly; a little more selfish and they'd've been here today. And I got an idea—watching them go down. Everything was being destroyed, see, but it seemed to me that one new thing was made. A kind of . . . responsibility. Man for man.

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.

Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden. (Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)