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Quotes About Commitment

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If I dont go will you go anyways? John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I dont have no intentions of carvin a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The boy was sitting quietly on the bunk, still wrapped in the blanket, watching. The man thought he had probably not fully committed himself to any of this. You could wake in the dark wet woods at any time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Okay. This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They dont give up. Okay.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
~ Cormac McCarthy
De acuerdo. Esto es lo que hacen los buenos. Seguir intentándolo. Jamás se rinden.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ich kann nicht anders.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If you break little promises you'll break big ones.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Qué harías si yo muriera? / Si tú murieras yo también querría morirme / ¿Para poder estar conmigo? / Sí. Para poder estar contigo / Vale
~ Cormac McCarthy
All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imi aduc aminte cind s-a pensionat tata si mama i-a spus: "Am zis ca la bine si la rau, dar n-am zis nimic despre prinz.
~ Cormac McCarthy