Quotes About Commitment

While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

So often, we pretend we've made a decision, when what we've really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.

Good people with strong convictions could overturn any injustice if they simply refused to quit.

She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.

Bet you ten bucks we make it. What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. Min? he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. No bet, she said against his mouth. Your odds are too good. Our odds are too good

Say it," she said, and he said, "I love you. I'll always love you. Forever. It's a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.

First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously— "Yes," Roger said. "She's the one.

have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey-

nfatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you're worked your way through it.

Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women? No, Riley said.

He hung up and smiled at Cal. "That was Min. She wants chicken marsala. You can deliver it to her." "What?" Cal said, dumbfounded. "You know the way. It's probably on your way home." "It's not on my way home, it's not on anybody's way home except God's, the damn place is vertical. What gave you the idea I'd do this?

She met his eyes and playing fair lost its appeal. "You are not going to forget me," she said, her chin up. "I don't give a damn what your plans are, you still want me. Just don't expect me to sit around waiting until you get your commitment problem worked out because I'm getting a brand-new life with this haircut, and it's going to include a brand-new sex life, too. Sorry you won't be joining me.

Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you've worked your way through it. You quit

This is just biology. Men need multiple breasts in their lives. Women need to make a commitment to one penis

But she was determined to do it, independent of all the circumstances and obstacles; she was this kind of person. Once she decided something, she was determined to do it and she did it.

We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When she walked away, and out of the door, it was like she was leaving forever.

We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When

The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

The girl, Gary's girl....would keep bowls of Hershey's Kisses on the coffee table, and she'd decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she'd be class mother, and PTA president, and she'd deliver meals to the elderly once a month. In bed, she'd be exuberant, and would take it as an endorsement when Gary sweated all over her.

Staying married, she'd decided, was a choice; one that had less to do with love and more with forbearance.