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Quotes About Oath

The captain scowled at her. Then he threw Petey to the floor with a coarse oath, knocking the scrimshaw and the carving knife from Petey's hands. Petey gasped for breath as Captain Horn hovered over him, wearing the look of a man who'd just been struck in the noggin by a yardarm and was itching to tear apart the one who'd done it.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
God's nightgown!" said Scarlett to herself in indignation, using Gerald's favorite oath. "He looks as if—as if he knew what I looked like without my shimmy," and, tossing her head, she went up the steps. In the
~ Margaret Mitchell
SEC. 6. All free white persons who shall emigrate to this republic, and who shall, after a residence of six months, make oath before some competent authority that he intends to reside permanently in the same, and shall swear to support this Constitution, and that he will bear true allegiance
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
and Money." Judge Tsang's usually stoic bailiff smiled as he swore Archer in. Archer
~ Sheldon Siegel
I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I'm not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I didn't swear an oath of secrecy, and I figure you've seen enough spooky shit the last few days that knowing about me is the least of your problems. Besides, I dare you to tell anyone I'm really a wolf pretending to be human. I double dog dare you. That, my friend, will get you locked inside a rubber room. (Vane)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won't have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain't big enough for the two of us? (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I know people better than to believe that for even an instant. Altruism is dead. People use and they take until you're nothing but a bleeding corpse on the ground at their feet. (Alix)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.
~ John Flanagan
A man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.
~ John Flanagan
A former Hollywood actor and a senior citizen when he first took the oath of office, Reagan was a revolutionary in many significant ways, but not necessarily in the fashion one might expect. His two terms, and the term of his successor as well, might well be described as the greatest chasm between image and reality that this country has ever witnessed.
~ John Kenneth Muir
They were locked together now in this new way, by blood, by Alice's secret, her worst act. They'd sworn in blood under the moon to keep Alice's secret, and in this way the vowed to keep future secrets, too.
~ Elizabeth Ames
I took an oath. If it is not inviolable, then I am useless. If I am not inviolate, the magic is not inviolate.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and I have seen the devil walk.
~ Austin Grossman
I would take an oath that I smelled Agilus's blood on the rain-washed air before his head banged into the basket.
~ Gene Wolfe
Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the spending of four years on dramatic criticism. I have sworn an oath to endure no more of it. Never again will I cross the threshold of a theatre. The subject is exhausted; and so am I. I am off duty forever, and am going to sleep.
~ George Bernard Shaw
On January 3, 2019, I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It was the third time in my life of public service that I had taken such an oath, but the words were just as profound to me as the first time I spoke them.
~ Abigail Spanberger
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.
~ Ryan Reynolds
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
~ Samuel Beckett
He that imposes an oath makes it,Not he that for convenience takes it;Then how can any man be saidTo break an oath he never made?
~ Samuel Butler
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
~ Samuel Johnson
Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without the dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.
~ Sarah Beth Durst