Quotes About Commitment

You have to speak the future into your words too. Write about your husband and everything you want in him. Don't leave out ONE detail. Then write about him everyday just like it's your life. Walk him right on in… Hello.

If you were mine, I'd never willingly put you in a situation where you'd be in danger. I'd lay my life on the line to protect you, not put you in harm's way while I sat tight and waited for you to come to me.

Why do people stay together? Putting aside 'for the sake of the children', and 'the habit of years' and 'economic reasons' as lawyers' nonsense – it's not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

It will be a compromise, but that's what the marriage often is

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

you'll have to trust me that it takes two people to make a marriage either succeed or fail.

Noam wouldn't die. He couldn't. Dara wouldn't let him.

You should get out of range. You don't want to get caught up in this." He was right. But Dara didn't move. "I'm staying with you," Dara said. "Until the end.

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess. But

If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The

He winced. I had hit him where it hurt, in the solar plexus of his conscience, where everyone who was an idealist was vulnerable. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The question was one of commitment.

Forgive me. I'm talking politics again. I swear not to talk about politics tonight, my brother. You know how hard that is for someone who believes everything is political.

Desarmar a un idealista era fácil. Solamente hacía falta preguntarle por qué no estaba en el frente de la batalla concreta que hubiera elegido.»

She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that.

talent is something you use, not something that uses you.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT WHAT NEEDS DOING?

She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as if every letter counted, page by page and word by word.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.