Quotes About Commitment

I never volunteer for anything," I said. "Soldier's basic rule.

don't know why he's there, but I promise you he's clean, and he's going to do what needs doing, or he's going to die trying.

Walker nodded. 'I will,' he said. 'I

One hundred and eighty minutes, not a second more, not a second less. Time and tide wait for no man. The Navy was built on all kinds of bullshit like that.

We don't have a Plan B.

OK, Finlay, let's get it done," I said. "I don't have an address because I don't live anywhere. Maybe one day I'll live somewhere and then I'll have an address and I'll send you a picture postcard and you can put it in your damn address book, since you seem so damn concerned about it.

Cops are the same the world over. Once they commit to a position in public they never back down. Trying to make them is a waste of time. Reacher knew that from personal experience. But still, there are standards to uphold.

If I wanted easy I would have joined the Marines.

He left home early, as he always did, six days a week, fifty weeks a year. A cautious breakfast, appropriate to a short round man aiming to stay in shape through his forties. A long walk down the carpeted corridors of a lakeside house appropriate to a man who earned a thousand dollars on each of those three hundred days he worked. A thumb on the button of the garage-door

sure Edmonds was busting a gut in Virginia, on East Coast time, gathering information, so she could call early and wake him up. Chapter 57 Edmonds' first call came in at two in the morning local time, which was five o'clock Eastern. Reacher and Turner both woke up. Reacher put the open phone between their pillows, and they rolled over forehead to forehead, so they could both hear. Edmonds said, "You

Always," Bellantonio

be good. You know, stick

Take it wherever I was supposed to take it. The rest of the stuff, I'd get rid of it." "That's what I would do as well," I said. "Where would you

sacrifices. And she

These are promises as solemn as government debt.

to come out from under and get involved

I don't know how much longer we can keep on doing it. It doesn't feel like a job for life." "It might have been, for Keever." "That's very blunt.

But we're not buying camels. So

saying it was

Sin fallos (Without Fail)

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

The members of Team Six "are bound together not only by sworn oaths, but also by the obligations of their brotherhood" (Pfarrer, 2011, p. 28). As one team member described it, "My relationship with Team Six has been more important than my marriage" (Wadsin and Templin, p. 254). Published

And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.