Quotes About Commitment

It seems to me I discovered what "I love you" really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you

I loved Spencer Tracy. He and his interests and his demands came first.

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Sometimes you make a sacrifice for what you believe,even if it hurts you your whole life.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Part of growing up is doing things you don't want to do. When it's in the best interest of someone you love.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

It's said that every man has his price, my prince," Morgan said. "Some are simply too high to be met." "And is yours that high?" Duncan faltered just an instant in his ministrations, but Morgan merely smiled. "High enough that no man could ever pay it but you, my prince," he replied without hesitation. "I am your man, as I was your father's before you. You have bought me with your love. Nor can I ever be resold.

I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

If theology is to speak adequately of the gospel of Jesus Christ, it must be thoroughly committed to hearing "the powerful witness of the 'tremendous' Word that always speaks against us so that we can learn to stop speaking against it.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

Since he brought an exacting and grim seriousness to his tasks in the best of times, he found this same demeanor effective in the worst of times.

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

there is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,