Quotes About Commitment

To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

You - my life - my All - farewell. Oh, go on loving me - never doubt the faithfullest heart Of your beloved L Ever thine Ever mine Ever ours.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Sacrifice once and for all the trivialities of social life to your art.

Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours." —LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, the Immortal Beloved Letters

To make a mistake is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

When you have a child, you will do anything for her. You may not do it well, but you will kill yourself trying. You will trip over obstacles as you clear them out of her path. You will give her the choices you didn't have.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back.

People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.

Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time

I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into business for himself. The one developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first words.

In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

Only cheats go back on a promise.

But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love? She thinks about it for a moment. That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her?

Oliver, she says. You can do this. I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well.

I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I'm gonna make sure it isn't any shorter than it has to be.