Quotes About Commitment

You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.

I am a woman committed to a politics of transliteration, the methodology of a mind stunned at the suddenly possible shifts of meaning - for which like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must find words or burn.

By going together we would at least be assured a common fate. In the future, as in the past, my place would be at my husband's side.

That's what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others

That's what I dislike most of all in people—cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything.

It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.

I… chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

A man visits a psychiatrist and tells him that his wife thinks she is a chicken. The psychiatrist asks why the man does not leave her, to which the man replies, 'I need the eggs.' That pretty much sums up all the marriages that I have ever known: each person needs the other's madness.

Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.