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Quotes About Commitment

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom, Tyler says, you never really succeed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's just such a big commitment, Brandy says, being a girl, you know. Forever. Taking the hormones. For the rest of her life. The pills, the patches, the injections, for the rest of her life. And what if there was someone, just one person who would love her, who could make her life happy, just the way she was, without the hormones and make-up and the clothes and shoes and surgery? She has to at least look around the world a little.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The fish is some­thing to make me set­tle in one place. Ac­cord­ing to church colony doc­trine, it's why men mar­ry wom­en and why wom­en have chil­dren. It's some­thing to live your life around.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's not that I want to get mar­ried. I ad­mire guys who can com­mit to a tat­too.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Marla shouts to the police that the girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball. Just say no.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you're dedicated to becoming an author, nothing I can say here will stop you. But if you're not, nothing I can say will make you one.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Niemand kennt die komplizierten Abkommen, die zwei Leute miteinander aushandeln, um länger als die ersten zehn Minuten verheiratet zu bleiben.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
it's why men marry women and why women have children.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I've known fantastic writers who never finished a project. And writers who launched incredible ideas, then never fully executed them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La gente casada siempre cree que el amor es la respuesta a todo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She'd married him for all the reasons she might hire a long-term employee.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Das Quietschen von Bettfedern, das Klatschen von Haut auf nackter Haut, das alles war ein biologisches Versprechen, dauerhafter als jedes Ja-Wort.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In un mondo in cui le promesse non hanno valore. In cui giurare non significa niente. In cui si promette solo per poi non mantenere, non sarebbe male veder rinascere il potere della parola.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. In
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Non lo so dice Denny. Fare un bambino non è come prendere un cane. Cioè, i bambini durano un sacco.
~ Chuck Palahniuk