Quotes About Commitment

In the name of God, do your duty.

She was easy to look at and easy to be with most of the time, but she was in no sense of the word an easy person. She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him. He would protect her; he would marry her.

We have to do a lot of things we don't want to do, Jean Louise." She blazed. "What kind of answer is that?

he found something so intensely feminine about her that he fell in love. She was easy to look at and easy to be with most of the time, but she was in no sense of the word an easy person. She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him. He would protect her; he would marry her.

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it, whether you think you have it in you or not. Every day.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write. From a 1964 interview.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write. From a 1964 interview.

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

some people say i would rather be pushin a ford than driving a chevy, em too i love a good workout

I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all

The world is full of good ideas, but without passionate commitment, they are worth little and go nowhere.

passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.

don't we all know that good work is rarely performed by people who don't care to do it?

it's an all-hands-on-deck affair.' 'And he wants my hand on his deck.' 'He does indeed.

Captain Chung Pei-fu of the Koumintang Army. A career soldier who had dedicated his life to war and who had never fought a battle.

You walk a path enough, you'll wear a groove in it. The groove gets too deep, metaphorically speaking, it becomes difficult to walk anywhere else. Maybe that path is the one you're meant to travel, and that's why the groove is there in the first place.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Will you wait for me forever?