Quotes About Commitment

Nick had secretly wearied, if not of his wife, at least of the life that their marriage compelled him to lead. His passion was not strong enough-had never been strong enough—to outweigh his prejudices, scruples, principles, or whatever one chose to call them. Susy's dignity might go up like tinder in the blaze of her love; but his was made of a less combustible substance.

el matrimonio no era un anclaje en puerto seguro, como le habían enseñado, sino un viaje por mares que no figuran en los mapas.

marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Nothing about his betrothed please him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the unpleasant in which they had both been brought up.

The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest.

leg?tura dintre soÈ› È™i soÈ›ie, chiar dac? se mai putea desface în epocile de prosperitate, era de nedezlegat în momentele de nenorocire.

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

No había motivo para tratar de emancipar a una esposa que no tenía la más remota noción de que no fuera libre; y ya hacía tiempo que había descubierto que el único uso de esa libertad que May suponía poseer sería dipositar dicha libertad en el altar de su adoración de esposa.

It isn't that she's given me to you--it is that she's given you to yourself... Don't you see... that that's the gift you can't escape from, the debt you're pledged to acquit? Don't you see that you've never before been what she thought you, and that now, so wonderfully, she's made you into the man she loved? That's worth suffering for, worth dying for, to a woman--that's the gift she would have wished to give!

Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.

Somewhere between six one evening and eight-thirty next morning, beside his dressing and his dinner and his guests and his sleep, he had read a volume of three-hundred-and-odd pages, and

You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made. -The Gay Old Dog

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp. Whatsoever walls he has determined to level with the ground, our hands are ready to work the engines: nor shall we hesitate, should the name of the devoted city be Rome itself.

the daughter of Count Saturninus was chosen to discharge the obligations of her country.

He wrote it all down Zealously.

Think of these as wedding bands, my love, the Grand Duke amusedly remarked. By the powers invested in me, I now pronounce us husband and wife, through lust and hatred, through indulgence and abuse-and you can rest assured, death will never do us apart.

A woman born to teaching wakes in the morning desperate to be near her pupils. I was that way. I am that way. I have told my own children and my husband to put on my grave marker 'Mother' and 'Teacher.' That before all else, even my own name. And if the chiseler has room, to have him put 'Wife.' 'Wife' below my name. 'Dutiful Wife,' if he can manage it.

We are measured not only by our triumphs, young man, but by our persistence. If we fail, we must try harder.

Marriage may not be a perfect state, but it is a protection, especially as we get older. And we are all getting older, my dear.

They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don't need to promise.

Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.