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Quotes About Commitment

Whatever you do, do it with purpose. It's not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
the task is not to find the object115 but to live the journey, with passion, and risk, and commitment, and danger.
~ James Hollis
If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.
~ James Hollis
The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.
~ James Hollis
He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.
~ James Jones
Maybe you'll remember me then." "I'll remember you." "Will you? Will you remember me tomorrow?" "Yes. Next week, too." "Will you remember me a month from now?" "Yes." "I dont believe it." "But I will though. Truly I will." "All right. I believe you. I know I'll remember you.
~ James Jones
We've built a million kitchens, For the cooks to burn our beans; We've walked a hundred million miles, We've cleaned out camp latrines. If we ever get to heaven, the angels all will yell: Take a front seat, Men of Schofield, You've done your hitch in hell.
~ James Jones
Two people who have meant as much to each other as we have dont fade out of each other's lives," Karen said. "Of course they dont," Warden said. "They cant.
~ James Jones
He was also wondering, as he dressed, at the humiliations men will suffer for a woman that they will not suffer for any other thing, even for their politics.
~ James Jones
Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?
~ James Joyce
and yes I said yes I will Yes.
~ James Joyce
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.
~ James Joyce
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
~ James Joyce
He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage.
~ James Joyce
YesIsaidyesyesyesyesyes...YesIsaidyes! andagainyesyesyes -- Molly Bloom
~ James Joyce
He vows her to be his own honeylamb, swears they will be papa pals, by Sam, and share good times way down west in a guaranteed happy lovenest when May moon she shines and they twit twinkle all night combing the comet's tail up right and shooting popguns at the stars.
~ James Joyce
A man who swears before the world to love a woman till death part him and her is sane neither in the opinion of the philosopher who understands what mutability is nor in the opinion of the man of the world who understands that it is safer to be a witness than an actor in such affairs. A man who swears to do something which it is not in his power to do is not accounted a sane man.
~ James Joyce
My experience has been that grief and loss do not necessarily become more acceptable with time, and commitment to them is of no value to either the living or the dead.
~ James Lee Burke
There's no substitute for loyalty.
~ James Lee Burke
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
~ James Lee Burke
There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.
~ James Lee Burke
When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.
~ James Lee Burke
her mouth and the earnestness in her expression were of a kind that made both the celibate and the happily married question the wisdom of their vows.
~ James Lee Burke
resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.
~ James Lee Burke