Selected commitment quotes

1. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

2. There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

3. The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

4. I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

5. If I get married, I want to be very married.

6. With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

7. We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

8. I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.

9. If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

10. I would rather start a family than finish one.

11. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

12. Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

13. Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

14. Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

15. One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

16. I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

17. If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

18. I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

19. [Matrimony] is the grave of love.

20. The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

21. A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

22. I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

23. I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

24. The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

25. I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

26. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

27. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

28. People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.

29. It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

30. The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

31. The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

32. The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

33. A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

34. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

35. Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

36. Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

37. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

38. You might say, what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screwup!

39. I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

40. There's no abiding success without commitment.

41. I just feel that there's a little bit of lack of respect and class just to kind of leave a tournament like that and then come out and practice here, especially being the hostess. You know, I don't know the situation, if it's injury or whatever it is. It's just -- it just seemed really weird.

42. There is always a way-if you're committed.

43. The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.

44. Because Israel believes, when it comes right down to it America is the only big country that cares whether they live or die. That's why I can say, give up the West Bank, because the Israelis knew that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan rival, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die, and I would.

45. This is war, motherfucker, and don't you forget it. It's us versus them, and if you're giving in you're giving up.

46. And so the administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.

47. I'm not getting out until they cut my head off and hand it to me.

48. Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.

49. But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

50. Refuse altogether to take an oath if you can, if not, as far as may be. (166)

51. 'We're gonna stay together until we fucking well die, I'm sure we will. I keep wanting to leave, but they won't let me!'

52. The world must know that this administration will not blink in the face of danger, and will not tire when it comes to completing the missions that we said we would do.

53. I traveled to Baghdad to personally show our nation's commitment to a free Iraq, because it is vital for the Iraqi people to know with certainty that America will not abandon them after we have come this far. The challenges that remain in Iraq are serious. We face determined enemies who remain intent on killing the innocent, and defeating these enemies will require more sacrifice and the continued patience of our country. But our efforts in Iraq are well worth it, the mission is necessary for the security of our country, and we will succeed.

54. We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins.

55. When, like the rising day, Eileen Aroon! Love sends his early ray, Eileen Aroon! What makes his dawning glow Changeless through joy and woe? Only the constant know!- Eileen Aroon!

56. I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't.

57. [My husband Emilio] found the last remaining virgin in the '70s -- and that was me.

58. Do not abandon your prayers intentionally for surely the obligations of Allah and His Messenger cease to cover one who forsakes his prayers intentionally.'

59. Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.

60. Victory or Westminister Abbey.

61. When doing a job - any job - one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. He must look after his work just as conscientiously, as though it were his own business and his own money. If he feels he is only a temporary custodian, or that the job is just a stepping stone to a higher position, his actions will not take into account the long-term interests of the organization. His lack of commitment to the present job will be perceived by those who work for him, and they, likewise, will tend not to care. Too many spend their entire working lives looking for the next job. When one feels he owns his present job and acts that way, he need have no concern about his next job.

62. I'm going to be with Gloria now.

63. I am a good Christian, properly baptized and I will die... a good Christian.

64. Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

65. You marry to be worthy of a gift, and want to say so out loud, but without shouting. One doesn't shout a prayer. Marriage is one of the few ceremonies left to us about which it is impossible - or at least self-demeaning - to be cynical.

66. My dear ones, I will not make a comparative analysis. I will only say that it is what costs that constitutes value. It is not, in fact, possible to be truly free without an honest and profound relationship with values. We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing.

67. 'I had my 'Alfie' days in my late teens. Those years when suddenly you are legally allowed into bars and clubs, and the world, you realize, is offering itself to you. But, I would say if you look at my life, I was someone who always looked for commitment and that was in my makeup.' - on his teen years.

68. Oh! To be in love, And never get out again.

69. I'll do it for you I'll be the Rose of Sharon for you Ooh I'll come in a hurricane for you I'll do it for you...

70. Anybody can they say they are being 'spiritual' - and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that bodhisattva vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their own primordial nature.

71. 'We shoot to kill, and you know we always will.' - From 'Bomber'.

72. The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.

73. The Thou encounters me by grace- it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.

74. Risk means guessing at the outcome, but never second-guessing.

75. What is meant by 'mingling' is the spirit of advancing and becoming engaged with the enemy, and not withdrawing even one step. You must understand this.

76. If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.

77. Life is a war, and in war, there is no second place.

78. But he did love her, with all his heart he loved her. All his heart? All of it he knew about.

79. You're so certain that you can hold people to their commitments. No ones ever made them do that before. Can you now?

80. Does [he] imagine that I could desire a mere woman, when [she] is my wife?

81. I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

82. I'm gonna watch you shine, gonna watch you grow. Gonna paint a sign so you'll always know. As long as one and one is two. There could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you.

83. Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no - I've made that deal already.

84. By this act, all ties with the dreadful past are broken, and my government will be proud to be able to march with you on to the inevitable victory.

85. [to Donna Cabonna] YES, 24-7!

86. Then, if when I have lov'd my round, Thou prov'st the pleasant she, With spoils of meaner beauties crown'd I laden will return to thee, Ev'n sated with variety.

87. The day danger to Islam is deemed imminent we must all make sacrifices.

88. While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together.

89. Three hours a day, everyday. That's all we ask.

90. This last statement is a traditional form of the Bodhisattva vows.

91. Gentlemen: you have now reached the last point. If anyone of you doesn't mean business let him say so now. An hour from now will be too late to back out. Once in, you've got to see it through. You've got to perform without flinching whatever duty is assigned you, regardless of the difficulty or the danger attending it. If it is garrison duty, you must attend to it. If it is meeting fever, you must be willing. If it is the closest kind of fighting, anxious for it. You must know how to ride, how to shoot, how to live in the open. Absolute obedience to every command is your first lesson. No matter what comes you mustn't squeal. Think it over - all of you. If any man wishes to withdraw he will be gladly excused, for others are ready to take his place.

92. The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

93. Sacrifice your life rather than your word.

94. There were times apart, there were times together. I was pledged to her for worse or better. When it mattered most I let her down. That's the way it goes, it'll all work out.

95. I live the life of a thug, Live it and Die for it!

96. I'm convinced that the Republic of Armenia will not allow anything to happen to Karabakh.

97. I was doing Sorcerer's Apprentice with Mickey Mouse and I happened to have dinner on night with Leopold Stokowski. And Stokowski said, 'Oh, I'd love to conduct that for you.' ... Well, that led to not only doing this one little short subject but it got us involved to where I did all of Fantasia and before I knew it I ended up spending four hundred and some thousand dollars getting music with Stokowski. But we were in then and it was the point of no return. We went ahead and made it.

98. That place is my baby and I would prostitute myself for it.

99. To farm is to be placed absolutely.

100. If you want to see how good you can become, you have to go somewhere you can play year-round. We hit balls in a dome in college. That's not the best way to develop your game.