Quotes About Commitment

We had a saying in the army," Tom Buckwell said. "Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it.

Most men got married because they were comfortable where they were, and breaking free was too hard and too unpleasant.

I'm willing to abandon the tender embrace of my future mother-in-law for your sake. About that, Aunt B said. I'm coming, too. Dead God, the cookie was poisoned.

If he ever told me that my wife is a 'potential threat' again, I would become a real and immediate threat.

You're the best husband ever," I told him. "No more fucking roofs, Kate. I mean it.

He wanted to marry her. "For men like you, 'marriage' sounds a lot like 'sentenced to forced labor in the mines.

It's okay," I told him. "I know." His voice was quiet. "I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to. I closed my eyes and whispered, I'll meet you halfway.

My lady," he said quietly. "Never do that again," she whispered. "Stay with me," he asked. "Where would I go?" He smiled then. She rolled her eyes and went back to the rites.

loving someone and being with him were two different things.

I don't come from money, Curran said. His voice rolled, filling the space. Everything I have I made with my own two hands, and I have to work hard every day for it. Even Daniels? another merc asked. That got some giggles. Curran cracked a smile. It was a bright, infectious smile. Especially Daniels. I work to keep her daily. Otherwise she wouldn't put up with me.

Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.

Sean halted. Do I get a good-bye kiss? It will just make things harder, Sean. You chose your road. You should follow it and not look back.

I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.

You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be." Wilmos

I'm not going anywhere. Besides, hell is when you and I are at our best.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Committed Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonest.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Committed Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonesty

Marianne se tut brusquement, songeant que l'amour conjugal pouvait croître non seulement sans l'aide des époux, mais malgré eux, malgré les querelles, les déceptions et les trahisons, croître par sa propre vertu, comme un enfant.

And you'll put a deposit on the house tomorrow?

Nothing is work when it's done with love.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?' Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.