Quotes About Oath

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill...

Well...what did you promise exactly? Not to tell anyone that Eric Dragomir had a mistress and baby?" Sonya nodded. "And not to tell who they were?" Sonya nodded again. Sydney gave Sonya the warmest, friendliest smile i'd ever seen on the Alchemist. "Did you promise not to tell anyone where they are?" Sonya nodded, and Sydney's smile faltered a little. Then her eyes lit up. "Did you promise not to LEAD anyone to where they are?

Whereupon the three men all shook hands with one another and swore a solemn oath that they would not go back to their farms until the fox was caught.

The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job. If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Military and naval officers take, in addition, an oath to obey the lawful orders of their superiors. Such an oath has never been understood to be eternal in its obligations. It is dissolved by the death, dismissal, or resignation of the officer who takes it; and such resignation is not a mere optional right, but becomes an imperative duty when continuance in the service comes to be in conflict with the ultimate allegiance due to the sovereignty of the State to which he belongs.

But she does not believe in God. And she breaks all her promises.

Elizabeth's name likely derives from the Hebrew Eli, meaning "my God," the beginning of Jesus' cry from the cross ("My God, my God"). The second part comes from sheva, which is an oath. Thus, her name indicates that God keeps promises.

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

At the age of 18, I went to West Point, and I swore an oath to defend this Constitution, and I embraced a motto called duty and honor and country. And I've lived my life in accordance with those values ever since then.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again.

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be loathe to think your father one of them.

A man takes an oath only when he wants to commit himself quite exceptionally to the statement, when he wants to make an identity between the truth of it and his own virtue; he offers himself as a guarantee. And it works.

You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls.

analyze them in terms of the 48 laws of power, and you extract from them a lesson and an oath: "I shall never repeat such a mistake; I shall

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.