Quotes About Commitment

The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.

I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)

You got me out of this place and here's your reward; you're everything we jointly abominate. The essence of what we're committed to destroy.

Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.

Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed. Wrecked. 'Let's go,' she said, rising to her feet. 'The hairdresser.

Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday.

It's a fact. I can't get faith or enthusiasm by willing it. Deciding to.

You know that, Ted. It's the most precious thing we have. Loyalty between us, between protector and serf, between a man and his mistress. Maybe, Benteley said slowly, a person should be loyal to an ideal.

He was interested in only one thing: turning out the best job he could, with the skill he possessed.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

What is worth having is worth working for.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse!

if I have to die to do what's proper, then I will, and be happy while I do.

And if we - later on - she was whispering shakily, If we meet someone we like, and if we marry them, then we must be good to them, and not make comparisons all the time and wish we were married to each other instead...But just keep coming here once a year, just for an hour, just to be together...

To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're a doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.

Lyra swore with every word she knew.

You shouldn't do it if you hate it. That's just prostitution.

I want to live with you for ever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life until I die, years and years and years away.