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Quotes About Commitment

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean
~ Orson Scott Card
Mama Squirrel laughed out loud and shook her head. "I swear I don't know why Margaret Larner would marry such a one as you." "It was an act of faith," said Alvin.
~ Orson Scott Card
Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.
~ Orson Scott Card
Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.
~ Orson Scott Card
we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. They
~ Orson Scott Card
After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.
~ Orson Scott Card
but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing
~ Orson Scott Card
You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.
~ OS Hillman
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
~ Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
~ Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~ Oscar Wilde
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
~ Oscar Wilde
Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
~ Oscar Wilde
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
~ Oscar Wilde
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
~ Oscar Wilde
LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
~ Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
~ Oscar Wilde