Quotes About Commitment

I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future.

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.

So let's catch this son of a bitch, so I can return to my classes, and finish up my degree. Then I'll join law enforcement, neglect my own family, and the cycle will be complete.

And that's love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most.

Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.

Promise me, then: If you ever see my father, if he should ever show up at our front door, you'll kill him first, and ask questions later. He'll never touch Ree. Promise me that, Jason. My husband looked me in the eye. He said, Consider it done.

And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B was still B. We could create a new life, but we couldn't stop being ourselves.

No. I joined the FBI so I could be heavily armed, and also help others.

My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.