Quotes About Commitment

If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

The genetic arms race suggests that men want the drama of fast-track sex without personal consequences and that women take a longer view incorporating protracted parental commitment.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Monogamous. I'm interested in monogamous. I got married last May and had my honeymoon is Stykkishólmur. This year I returned to Stykkishólmur to live with my husband for three months in one small room. This extreme monogamy proved almost too much for us. Rather than murder each other we rented a second place (Greta's house) near the pool. Now we are happily duogamous.

He had already prepared himself for martyrdom, and the last thing he desired was to be offered an alternative

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find-- blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

Love takes a leap of faith. It's an act of courage.

I want to marry you for only one reason—I'm madly, deeply, irrevocably in love with you. More than I ever knew was possible.

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. MATTHEW 16:24

Love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. DEUTERONOMY 30:20

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. PROVERBS 3:3

You'll know your heart's been set aflame by the fire of revival when nothing else matters to you as much as He does — and your love for Him.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. MATTHEW 19:29

In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. LUKE 14:33

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Shutter all the windows, bar the door - Pain is what a house is for. Close your eyes when other eyes beseech, turn away from arms that reach. There is no commitment without cost - nothing is loved but can be lost. Better not to meet than have to part - there is no armor for the heart. But always light seeps in through cracks, and dust. No house is built that you can trust, So you may wake one day to find you care a little too much for a chair.

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

I suppose I will just have to make sure that I marry someone I look forward to curling around every morning. Whom I can't be without before breakfast. Or in the noon. Whom I need to race home to see after each appointment. Determined to lock her in my rooms, not because I need to hide anything but because I'd just as soon have her all to myself. To look upon her beloved face and hear her lips whisper in my ear.