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Quotes About Oath

LARS Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
An Anglisc oath is like water. It pours into every part of you, every crevice. You can't hold any piece apart from it.
~ Nicola Griffith
No sword shall touch you. Unless it be mine." — Anonymous, lover's oath
~ Clive Barker
That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.
~ Virginia Woolf
You just promised me eternity, you know. I can make you live to regret it.
~ Lara Adrian
He blew out an oath. "The blood bond, Savannah...it's permanent. Unbreakable. It's a sacred thing." His frown deepened. "This isn't the way it's supposed to be.
~ Lara Adrian
Harvester cocked a dark eyebrow. 'I swore an oath to watch over you. Not to put up with your shit. I'm not evil anymore, but I'm still not nice. Keep that in mind.
~ Larissa Ione
Lepine nos recuerda: "Un esposo que ama a su esposa como Cristo ama la iglesia va a comenzar a entender que su amor es una decisión, a pesar de (no a razón de) las acciones, actitudes o apariencia de su esposa. Una vez él le ha pedido que sea su esposa, un esposo hace el juramento de amor incondicional hacia ella, para bien o para mal".
~ Larry E. McCall
El Gran Bosque fue testigo de su juramento, y las hojas de los árboles susurraron, movidas por una ráfaga de viento de septentrión.
~ Laura Gallego García
Magellan replied that he had formally renounced his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
~ Laurence Sterne
Ten days after Hoffa took the oath of office in 1957, the AFL-CIO kicked out the Teamsters, saying that they could get back in only if they got rid of "this corrupt control" of the union by Jimmy Hoffa and his racketeer union officials. On
~ Charles Brandt
Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't... Be a soldier to thy purpose.
~ William Shakespeare, Pericles
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
~ Lech Walesa
I have taken an oath already to the United States of America to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the only oath I will take.
~ Andrew McCabe
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
~ Zachary Taylor
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
~ Aeschylus
I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
~ Alex Padilla
I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.
~ Michael D. Higgins
But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
~ Simon Greenleaf
The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.
~ Mark McKinnon
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
~ Paul Begala
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
~ Linda Tripp
Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
~ Ken Starr