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Quotes About Commitment

I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory
~ Philip Pullman
He was her devoted slave by this time; he would have followed her to the ends of the earth.
~ Philip Pullman
As long as I live. As long as I live...
~ Philip Pullman
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
~ Philip Roth
Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.
~ Philip Roth
It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
~ Philip Roth
Nothing keeps its promise.
~ Philip Roth
In the ass is how you create loyalty.
~ Philip Roth
You've got a good girl this time. Don't screw it up. Don't let her go.
~ Philip Roth
If he had another brother he would call him. But for a brother he has only Jerry and Jerry has only him. For a daughter he has only Merry. For a father she has only him. There is no way around any of this.
~ Philip Roth
That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
~ Philip Roth
The ordeal is part of the commitment Esquire Interview 10/10
~ Philip Roth
It's the Sundays that keep these couples together. As if Sundays alone could be any worse.
~ Philip Roth
Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive
~ Philip Roth
Die wirklich wichtige Freiheit erfordert Aufmerksamkeit, und Offenheit und Disziplin und Mühe und die Empathie, andere Menschen wirklich ernst zu nehmen und Opfer für sie zu bringen, wieder und wieder, auf unendlich verschiedene Weisen, völlig unsexy, Tag für Tag.
~ David Foster Wallace
Dejó de beber. Eso lo mató. No podía soportarlo, pero lo había prometido
~ David Foster Wallace
Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache.
~ David Gemmell
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.
~ David Guterson
Less formally, we consider the time it takes someone to return a phone call, whether meetings are canceled or kept, and whether to-do lists are completed. Reliability
~ David H. Maister
The most effective organizations are those that are held together by shared and enforced principles, values, and standards.
~ David H. Maister
Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.
~ David Hackworth
Shed sweat—not blood
~ David Irving
To me, this is a play about two people who are joined irreparably. They're handcuffed at the heart.
~ David Ives
Learn the best psychological strategy to help keep any employee or customer from ever leaving you.
~ David J. Lieberman