Quotes About Commitment

Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.

I'd like to shower and change clothes, she said. Would you mind waiting for me a half hour? The question seemed to amuse him. Not at all, he said with exaggerated formality. Please take all the time you need. Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears. She shook her head, remembering. He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this - She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.

Bit ljubavi u tome je da se cijeli predaš i da ništa ne uskra?uješ, Ljubav je zna?ila da svoju sre?u povjeravaš nekomu drugomu i zauzvrat snosiš odgovornost za sre?u te osobe.

I love you, he thought with each thrust of his body; I love you, his heart shouted with each thunderous beat; I love you, his soul cried out as Alexandra's spasms clenched him tightly. I love you. The words exploded in his being as he drove into her one last time and poured his life, his future, and all the disillusionment of his past into her tender keeping.

There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it...sex is a commitment...once you're there you can't go back to holding hands.

Feeding Tootsie can be an all-day project.

He couldn't help himself. He loved us, Francie, more than anything

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "then I haven't missed anything.

Anyone who's willing to run, I'm not willing to vote for.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

To experience the "Kingdom" means that I have taken all that He has freely given to me, plus the right to my own life, and have given all this unconditionally to Him. He has become "Lord" of my life and I have yielded control over the totality of my being - all that I am, and all that I ever will be, to Him. He is now "my" Lord.

Although it should be avoided, you can break promises to people if you have to—because you can explain circumstances and make reasonable justifications and compromises with people. Dogs take you at your word—that's a lot to live up to—and I, for one, do not want to be the kind of person who reneges on a good-faith deal with a dog.

I believed that my parents and grandparents stayed married for fifty years because of the simple yet undeniable fact that they worked like hell at it every single day, not because they bought each other a commemorative teacup every year.

There are going to be many changes, I warn you. I want no officer who is not prepared to do everything that his men have to do. Not only that-he must be able to do it better.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.