Quotes About Commitment

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

There's something flabby about teaching in a place like this," He said. "If you don't have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.

Even when other things come in loud, we have to keep choosing each other. That's marriage. You can't only say the words once and think they'll stick. You have to say them over and over, and then live them with all you've got.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You can see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart.

People belong together to each other only as long as they believe. He stopped believing.

I love you now more than I ever have in some ways and though different people view their marriage vows differently, I meant mine to the death. I'm ready to be yours forever if you must know it, but since you've fallen in love and want to marry someone else, I feel I have no choice but to move aside and let you do that.

They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?

Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do.

Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?" "I'd love to look like you," I said. "I'd love to be you.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

I was just as terrified that even if he did finally choose me, our love wouldn't be the lasting kind.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe.

We were both straining to bend and compromise for the other. But that was what marriage was about, wasn't it?

Even when other things come in loud, we have to keep choosing each other. That's marriage. You can't only say the words once and think they'll stick. You have to say them over and over, and then live them out with all you've got.

I rarely knew what Jock was thinking. He worked hard, as

What was more exciting than that? I could love him like crazy and work very hard to understand and support him, but I couldn't be fresh eyes and a fresh smile after five years. I couldn't be new.

I never thought I'd get married," I told Boy as he poured for us. Scotch spilled into the squat glasses with reassuring lapping noises. "I should have left well enough alone." "You don't need to explain.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. But

And so it was that every few weeks, on a Saturday morning, I went home to Njoro to be a wife. D

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He's stopped believing.