Quotes About Commitment

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

One day Surpresa was on his way to minister, and his car broke down. He walked eight hours in the rain, mile after mile, carrying a tire. He just sang the whole time, praising Jesus.

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit.

The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. It's typical of men to annex a global trend and turn it into a male device to reject women to make themselves feel clever and us feel stupid. It's nothing but fuckwittage.

Il faut choisir son régime et s'y tenir. C'est ce que je vais faire. Dès que j'aurai fini mon petit pain au chocolat.

I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

This is what I know about love. That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

What is true happiness? It's not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.