Quotes About Commitment

6 Yet, history took a different course. Mozart died that December and the adjunct post fell to Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, court organist in Vienna, distinguished composer, theorist, and Mozart's senior by twenty years.7 A little over a year later, the Viennese magistrate also honored the commitment previously made to Mozart and, after Hofmann's death in March 1793, Albrechtsberger became kapellmeister of the cathedral and retained that office until the end of his life in 1809.

I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana

Stay loyal to those who love you.

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

I won't run away,' I said.

She wouldn't dispute that there was such a thing as sheer, instinctive physical attraction, but sexual attraction was a more intricate process, and the greater part of it happened in the head. Good sex needed commitment, and by that she didn't mean honourable intentions or proven longevity. Commitment was about how much you were prepared to let go. If you were with someone long enough, that came through trust. Otherwise, it had to come through abandon.

There is no magic wand to accomplish change. No one can promise change—he or she can only make it possible. What makes change happen, history and current U.S. politics show, is principled and courageous commitment and integrity.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

If this love is what we say it is, I know we will go far and with a girl as sweet as you there is not much else I can do but fall for you.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Um dos sinais da verdadeira amizade é o facto de esta não se modificar, aconteça o que acontecer. A amizade e a disponibilidade de nos ajudarmos mutuamente continua até ao fim das nossas vidas.

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn't work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have been over at minute 32.

My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end. She did not know what else to do.