Quotes About Commitment

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.

So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

Grandpa's farm had belonged to our people ever since there had been a farm in that place, or people to own a farm. Grandpa's father had left it to Grandpa and his other sons and daughters. But Grandpa had borrowed money and bought their shares. He had to have it whole hog or none, root hog or die, or he wouldn't have it at all.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

marriage is the earthly form of love that gives love its place and work and provides for the good care of both bodies and souls. ... Marriage takes love out of the mind and places it responsibly in the world. (Poetry and Marriage)

Or in the latter part of a late-winter Saturday afternoon, his mind turning (as he would not say, but as we knew) to the prospect of a visit to his might-as-well-be wife, Kate Helen Branch, he would stand up and stretch. "Well, boys, I reckon I better get on home and shine, shave, clean up, and sandpaper my tool.

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate "relationship" involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended.

His work has been his necessity and his desire.

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.