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Quotes About Vow

You don't have to do this for me," Emma was saying, softly but earnestly, in a voice Cristina had never heard her use before. I think I do," said Julian. "I think I remember making a vow to that effect." "'Whither thou goest, I will go, whatever stupid thing you do, I will do also?'" Emma said. "Was that the vow?
~ Cassandra Clare
No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.
~ Cassandra Clare
You don't have to do this." "I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect." "Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow?
~ Cassandra Clare
Well, you know how it is. We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We're married, big boy.
~ Gordon Merrick
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
~ Tertullian
One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Oxford philosopher John Austin pointed out that saying, "I promise," is a whole different linguistic deal
~ Thomas Cathcart
I will," I said.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Did you take a vow of poverty or something? This is a housedress, Malloy, she said, indignant again. I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother. Did your mother take a vow of poverty?
~ Victoria Thompson
Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?
~ Virginia Woolf
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
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
~ Lauren Oliver
first, recognize them; second, try to overcome them; third, take a vow never to re-create such things again.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Russ quit smoking on a bet with Jimmy Blue Eyes,
~ Charles Brandt
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
~ Charles de Gaulle
It doesn't matter. They're all dead now, or in Florida," which in her mind is the same as being dead. "I'll never retire to Florida," she vowed. Riding past a graveyard one day, she looked over and remarked, "That's Florida Forever.
~ James McBride
I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
~ Kevin Kline
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
~ Thomas Otway
Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.
~ Thomas Watson
A promise is a promise if it is made in blood.
~ Cressida Cowell