Quotes About Commitment

Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.

Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it's knowing you... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures—when all that's on the shelf and done with.

O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks.

And we were driving there with Florence and Stella. I was complaining about having to go all the way up to Connecticut, and you said, 'Look at it this way: we have two obligations to our old friends. We have to go to their weddings and we have to go to their funerals. With George, we're halfway home.

It was hard for him to insist, because it hurt her, and because he knew it would drive her away. But he couldn't string a woman along anymore. He felt like a rat, but a rat at peace with itself.

This is what an artist is, she thought. This is the temperament you need to spend a whole day tinkering with a sentence, making sure that both the meaning and the music are right; to spend three or seven or ten years working on a book.

when she contemplated marrying him—when she even contemplated sleeping with him—though some clear voice in her mind shouted "No!," she thought the voice could be overruled.

There's no such thing as free kittens.

As his owner had promised, the big male pulled like an ox. But three days of non-stop barking brought an ultimatum from Kate. "I don't care how well he pulls. I hate that dog and I want him out of here.

21For it seems as though everyone else is busy seeking what is best for themselves instead of the things that are most important to our Lord Jesus Christ.

my life is poured out like a liquid offering to God over your sacrificial and surrendered lives of faith.

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Besides, come shells or high water in the shelter, we were going to continue our education. More important than anything else to our parents and leaders was that we be educated. Our

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

Now get to work, bitch!