Quotes About Commitment

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality.

Only gay bars were full; the heterosexual joints were empty—the heteros massively committed to watching television with their falsely monogamous spouses.

The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.

Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.

If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?

Volevo dire che io la voglio, la vita, farei qualsiasi cosa per poter averla, tutta quella che c'è, tanta da impazzirne, non importa, posso anche impazzire ma la vita quella non voglio perdermela, io la voglio, davvero, dovesse anche fare un male da morire è vivere che voglio.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir? ¿No sabíais que la iniquidad no se funda sólo en sus propias fuerzas, sino también en la credulidad y el miedo ajenos?

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir?

questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, nè domani, nè mai.

Dopo dodici mesi de noviziato, pieni di pentimenti e di ripentimenti, si trovò al momento della professione, al momento cioè in cui conveniva, o dire un no più strano, più inaspettatto, più scandaloso che mai, o ripetere un sí tante volte detto; lo ripeté, e fu monaca per sempre.

Non sapevate che, se l'uomo promette troppo spesso più che non sia per mantenere, minaccia anche non di rado, più che non s'attenti poi di commettere? Non sapevate che l'iniquità non si fonda soltanto sulle sue forze, ma anche sulla credulità e sullo spavento altrui?

V'ha detto che i doveri annessi al ministero fossero liberi da ogni ostacolo, immuni da ogni pericolo? O v'ha detto forse che dove cominciasse il pericolo, ivi cesserebbe il dovere? O non v'ha espressamente detto il contrario?

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life

With all I have," he whispered solemnly. "For the rest of my life.

Your world is only the product of your sacrifices.

Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success