Quotes About Oath

I knelt at Ellen's feet, as I kneel now by yours, And I swore to her by the name o' the threefold God, that I would follow ye always, to do your bidding, and guard your back, when ye became a man grown, and needing such service. Aye, lad. I do cherish ye as the son of my own loins.

No, blast it! I can't even shoot the bastard, without dishonoring my brother's sworn word!

Algún día..., algún día te veré muerta... Os veré muertos a todos... se prometió (p. 184)

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

It is now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth. In doing so, Bill Clinton not only committed perjury, he violated the public trust.

Joe Biden willfully abandoned his duty as President of the United States and violated his constitutional oath to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed' by failing to ensure the national security of the United States and its citizens.

Dodger knelt beside Sterling. "Greystone, you have to understand we come from the streets. When Frannie was a young girl, we weren't able to stop someone from hurting her very badly. The four of us swore an oath that we'd die before we let anyone harm her again. It's a vow we will keep." Sterling lay where he was long after Dodger left. He had been correct about one thing: they did love her.

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank.

Vows are powerful things, he said. They set things in motion.

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

I need your trust in this, Alec. Can you give it?" Alec looked sidelong at the fire for a long moment, then locked eyes with him again, and replied in halting Aurenfaie, "Rei phoril tos tokun meh brithir, vri sh'ruit'ya." Though you thrust your dagger at my eyes, I will not flinch. A solemn oath, and one Seregil had pledged him not so long ago.

Because you're the reason. Swear it.

Name one hero who was happy. You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward. He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret. I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. "I swear it," he echoed. We sat like that for a moment, hands touching. He grinned. "I feel like I could eat the world raw.

The religious sense of life kicks in when I am rigorously loyal, "religiously" faithful (religio on still another etymology, meaning "scrupulous" or "in a disciplined way") to the service of something other than myself, more important than myself, to which I swear an oath, which has me more than I have it.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

An oath by the River Styx would hold even Zeus himself.

I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.

Name one hero who was happy. You can't.' He was sitting up now, leaning forward. He lifted an eyebrow. 'I'll tell you a secret. I'm going to be the first.' He took my palm and held it to his. 'Swear it.' 'Why me?' 'Because you're the reason. Swear it.' 'I swear it, I said, lost in the high colour of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. 'I swear it,' he echoed. We sat like that for a moment, hands touching. He grinned, 'I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Nunca te dejan ser famoso y feliz. Voy a contarte un secreto. - Dime - Yo voy a ser el primero. Júralo. - ¿Por qué yo? - Porque tu eres la razón.