Quotes About Commitment

Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.

for Momo, Accardo

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.

You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you'll never be a writer, Eugene.

It was a limited engagement. When they stop coming, I limit the engagement.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment—and sometimes, as in Mystery's case, even rebel against it by endeavoring to bring out the worst in a woman.

Using words like casual and hang out, and the time constraint, were all part of a strategy to make the visit a low-pressure event. It's a much better way to get someone to commit to time with a stranger than AFC-style dinner dating, which can be a painful, drawn-out affair that involves two people who may have nothing in common stuck together for an entire night of awkward conversation.

But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price. I

They say that a man is as faithful as his options, and in this moment I know it to be true. So I switched the phone off. It's too much. Even Jesus only had three temptations.

And that's when I realized the mistake I'd been making my whole life: to get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

I realized the mistake I'd been making my whole life: to get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her. What if she reacts me? Yeah, and what if a meteor hits your house.

Sometimes I think being a cop is less dangerous than being married.

Actually, she'd made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

wanted to sleep with Beth tonight, but I didn't want to get involved tomorrow. On

She told me, 'I said for better or worse, Dick, but I never said for lunch.

Lest you think we are utterly depraved, I want you to know that we are both registered Republicans and members of the Episcopal Church, and attend regularly except during the Boating Season

A fidelidade devia ser facultativa.

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.

When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not . You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.