Quotes About Commitment

there's a part of my heart or mind, or some spot where the two meet, a spot that isn't mine because I'm a wife. This part isn't really me at all, but a promise I made on a snowy day. A promise to stay and to be with (him) and to be good to him, and when there's no other way, I have to go to that promise to find my feeling for my husband. We walk the finest of foolish, foolish lines.... How can anybody love anybody else for more than five minutes?

Sure, I've occasionally told Louis Chen that I hope a monster eats him, and he's told me to go boil my head a few times, but that tends to be in the heat of the moment, and anyway we're getting married once we get old enough, so we don't have to make nice all of the time.

I now have to choose between son and husband. But I have made my decision and I have to be strong. I must leave my boy and share my life – or my death – with my husband.17

I would do anything," he said in quiet desperation, "even going to prison, if she could only be well again.

Life', Alice resolutely told her mother in 1866, 'is meant for work, and not for pleasure.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

When would I learn the secret of happy, contented teamwork? Why did I always want to be the last link? If I would love the Lord with all my mind, I had to give Him all that I thought I knew or could do, and be willing for Him to place me anywhere within the team to do any job He chose for me. Only then would I exprience true peace of mind.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth — and endures all the rest.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.

being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust.

At a time when most countries are reneging on their environmental promises, Danes are setting themselves tougher and tougher targets, and they're on course to meet them.

2The miracle prayer is: 3If you will tell me what to do, I will to do it.