Quotes About Commitment

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

A consumer-driven, advertising-dominated culture militates daily against ongoing attachments. It is constantly inviting us to switch to a different brand, try something new, go for a better deal elsewhere. It should not come as a surprise that this begins to affect human relationships as well. A society saturated by market values would be one in which relationships were temporary, loyalties provisional and commitments easily discarded.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...

You shouldn't have done it," I said. "You shouldn't have risked yourself." "Come off it," Lockwood said. "You know I'd die for you." He chuckled. "Heaven knows, I've come near it often enough. Scrambling down a crack in the ground is nothing…

Whatever the cost, as long as you're in my company, be sure I'll always be there for you.

There was a devotion to detail here that could only come with genuine affection, perhaps even with love.

Take me! You need a companion." "Yep," I said. "And I'm going with Lockwood." In fact, I had to hurry. I could hear him putting his coat on in the hall. "Aha…Are you? Oh, I see. Better leave you to it, then." "Right. Good." I paused. "Meaning what?" "Nothing, nothing." The evil eyes winked at me. "I'm no third wheel." "I don't

With my own fair hands.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Never marry a beautiful woman. Worship them if you must, go to bed with them if you can—by all means, everyone should have carnal knowledge of physical perfection at least once in their life—but when it comes to marriage, it's a losing proposition. You will never stop feeling like a gatecrasher at your own party. Instead of feeling lucky, you will spend your life on edge, waiting for the other stiletto to fall and puncture your heart like a bullet.

Sometimes, commitment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.

Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn't very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you'll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the world owes you reparations.

When the time comes,' Lief said, determinedly drowning her out, 'I will follow Adin's example, and marry for love.' He glanced at her. 'if the woman I love will have me, of course.' 'She probably will,'said Jasmine. 'When the time comes.' She slipped her hand into his.

What cannot be changed, must be endured," he said grimly. "Our duty now is to the living.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

I don't want balance. What I want is the brick! I want to find the one thing in my life that, if I get that right, it doesn't matter what the world throws onto the other side of the scale.

Early to bed, early to rise; Work like hell and fertilize.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell: fertilize

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.