Quotes About Commitment

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

My life is scheduled to the minute. I used to be notoriously hard to get a hold of. But now, it would be irresponsible for me to say, 'I'm not checking my phone.'

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

it's easier to refrain from sexual activity altogether than to maintain a harmonious sexual relationship.

Continuing to work in a spirit of love and understanding required great courage.

You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.

Those who do not share the concerns of the Sangha cannot be a part of the Sangha.

There's a tradition in Asia of treating your partner with the respect you would accord a guest. This is true even if you have been with your loved one for a long time. The other person always deserves your full respect.

Beginning anew" means being determined not to repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, "I am determined not to behave as I did in the past," transformation occurs immediately.

he kept saying to himself, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, never the Francis Bacon, absolutely not, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, no I won't, not the Francis Bacon.

Mais, lui, ne voulant pas renier son caractère, avait, avant de se suicider, brûlé l'œuvre de sa vie, la rendant au néant en quelques instants, après avoir consacré des dizaines d'années à la mener à bien, et il n'avait pas voulu la laisser à une postérité qui ne la méritait en aucun cas (Génie).

But to go hiking or even to go for a walk in the country—that I can't do. It makes no sense to me at all, I can't commit this sort of nonsense, I won't commit the crime of this nonsense.

gospel, and a cheap ministry, and a cheap membership, and a cheap communion of saints, etc. But when his obedience comes to be chargeable, when his obedience to divine commands may cost him his health, his strength, his liberty, his riches, his estate, his friends, his credit, his name, etc., then he retires, then he cries out, It is a hard saying, who can bear it? John 6:60. This is a hard commandment, who can obey it?

remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!

Ich erzähle dir das deshalb, damit du heute schon weißt, daß alles seinen Preis hat. Wenn du eines Tages endlich weißt, was du willst, dann wirst du auch konsequent sein müssen. Und du wirst eben nicht nur hart arbeiten müssen - das sowieso -, sondern du wirst auch deine Katzen ersäufen müssen. Und ich kenne keinen, der etwas gilt, der darum herumgekommen ist. Jeder von denen hat mal seine sechs Katzen ersäuft.

Worse still, throughout the program's first decade, two-thirds of participants never even finished. Let that sink in: two-thirds did not even bother to complete a free job-training program—financed by hard-working Americans.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

All romances end at marriage.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?