Quotes About Commitment

Love, yes. But sometimes love must sacrifice itself in order to remain love.

Actually, said Gildas, every marriage is an irreversible mistake. That's the secret which they all keep.

Living like this is a full-time business.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love… -p. 131

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

Men identified themselves with the Century with which they were associated professionally. Its battles, all too often, became their own battles.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

They brought the plan through, because they loved the greater Plan.

I know. A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself

el eterno ideal era un hombre austero, que solo vivía para la misión a la que era destinado, para la mejora de la Realidad y para incrementar la suma de la felicidad humana.

Valamilyen garanciára szükségem van. – Szavamat adom. – Ami, ugyebár, fölbecsülhetetlen érték? – hajolt meg gúnyosan Pherl –, de azért az ön jelenléte, ugyebár, mégiscsak nagyobb biztosítékot jelentene!

the mere act of not being a traitor is also a long way from agreeing to be an active helper.

Después de 10 años de matrimonio era todavía lo suficientemente estúpido como para seguir enamorado de ella.

Tal ves temía que ese grandioso amor, que había resistido tantas pruebas, no pudiera sobrevivir a la más terrible de todas: la convivencia.

Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, día a día, con la mejor intención. Eso es lo único que podemos prometernos mutuamente.