Quotes About Commitment

said to the captain. "I want to help." Valentine

Kiss me hard and deep, kiss me like you need to have me that very minute. I didn't spend all this time working to get past your control so that we could go back to the beginning." Her gaze held his. "I want everything from you, and in return, well, everything is absolutely what I'll give you.

I want to date you, properly. The flowers and the dinners and anything and everything you want." He swallowed, cleared his throat. "And when you're ready, I want to marry you. If you'll have me." If?

Because I do love you, and I'd like to spend the rest of my life making you happy." Her

Love isn't only passion and joy. It's also sacrifice.

I respected him enormously for standing by me when he knew it might ruin his career, just as he was on the brink of success: he had a streak of fundamental decency that went far beyond simply observing the convention of the day and I loved him for it.

Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.

Someday soon," he says. "I promise.

I've always been wary of marriage.

instead he was being led away from his proper Emma by a woman who was conducting a revolution in his kitchen.

High-performing people are good at staying almost exclusively focused on what they are responsible for and what they can do right here, right now.

But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.

all work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs...

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.

The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later...

I should be dead already, but there's work to do.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

They left their comfortable homes... and fought..., and, because this was bread in their bone, they wanted no fuss.

I reply, with all the firmness at my command, that I have certain duties to perform. They may not be spectacular, but they are my small contribution to our war effort . . . and Betty must be educated. . . . Guthrie says, "Why must she be educated? I hate well-educated women, they are always boring.

You can't get anything worth having for nothing," Darnay declared, offering his guest a fill of tobacco from his pouch, "and faith is worth having—it's the only thing that can save us now, when the whole world has straws in its hair. Faith is worth working for." Bulloch considered this while he filled his pipe. "To

At the end of a year the matter would be reconsidered. Mr. Whitney insisted on the year's probation—Ernest might want to marry, or he, himself, might die; anything might happen in a year— "Good," said Ernest at last, stretching his arms, "I'm free." "You are bound," thought Mr. Whitney but he was too wise to say so.

If it wasn't that it was all arranged I'd back down," declares Annie frankly. I assure Annie that a lot of people feel like that as their wedding day approaches. "Yes," says Annie. "Mrs. Fraser did too. Mrs. Fraser says it's like 'aving a tooth out. You're sorry you ever came when you find yourself in the dentist's chair, but you're all the better for it afterwards.