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Quotes About Commitment

That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness– It's your best strength
~ Patrick Ness
It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.
~ Patrick Ness
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
~ Patrick O'Brian
When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.
~ Unknown
This civic-minded commitment might have been a function of the socialist philosophy that the brothers shared: they would generate wealth, but they wouldn't hoard
~ Unknown
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Vashet: "I will admit, I've never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time." Kvothe: "That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
La música es una amante orgullosa y temperamental. Si le dedicas el tiempo y la atención que se merece, es toda tuya. Pero si la desairas, llegará un día en que la llamarás y ella no contestará.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
unwise love is the truest love.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If you sell me a horse that throws a shoe, or starts to limp, or spooks at shadows, I will miss a valuable opportunity. A quite unrecoverable opportunity. If that happens, I will not come back and demand a refund. I will not petition the constable. I will walk back to Imre this very night and set fire to your house. Then, when you run out the front door in your nightshirt and stockle-cap, I will kill you, cook you, and eat you. Right there on your lawn while all your neighbors watch.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Chronicler froze. 'So you're saying I work for you?' 'I'm saying you belong to me.' Bast's face was deadly serious. 'Down to the marrow of your bones.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes." I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Te mentiría. Vale la pena mentir por ti. Pero no te mentiría. También vale la pena decir la verdad por ti.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I stayed because there was no other place I could learn what I desired. Mere whipping could not keep me away from it." There are things I desire to learn, and I can only learn them here." I handed her the hard, dark piece of wood. "If you want me to leave, you must do worse than welts.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Should I expect her to always love me best, and most, and only?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. I'm not embarrassed by the fact. They considered themselves married and didn't see much point in announcing it to any government or God. I respect that. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Por muy atractiva que parezca una cosa, tienes que valorar los riesgos que corres. Cuánto lo deseas, cuánto estás dispuesto a quemarte.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sit your ass down and write.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Cuando quieres algo, tienes que asegurarte de que eso te quiere a ti, porque si no, pasarás muchos apuros persiguiéndolo.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Pero tú no entras en el trato -dijo casi con fiereza-. Tú eres mío. Solo mío. No tengo intención de compartirte.
~ Patrick Rothfuss