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Quotes About Vow

With all I have," he whispered solemnly. "For the rest of my life.
~ Alethea Kontis
In fundamental ways, the 2016 Democratic primary has been a litigation of the Obama years, and of whether the president's 2008 campaign vow of 'change we can believe in' succeeded or failed.
~ Joy Reid
Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.
~ Rick Riordan
Hazel] hissed in frustration. 'I hate eidolons. I thought Piper made them promise to stay away.' 'Oh...' Frank said, like he'd just had his own daily happy thought. 'Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they're not technically breaking their vow...' 'Great,' Leo muttered. 'Eidolons who are also lawyers. Now I really want to kill them.
~ Rick Riordan
To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.
~ Rick Riordan
He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good quiet life. Like Candide, he would cultivate his garden. Quietly. And that would be his redemption. Even if he could add only a feather to the balance it would be some kind of repayment for being spared. When it was all over and the reckoning fell due, it may be that he would be in need of that feather.
~ Kate Atkinson
He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good quiet life. Like Candide, he would cultivate his garden. Quietly. And that would be his redemption.
~ Kate Atkinson
when he had looked into the heart of the labyrinth and made a vow to protect the secret with his life.
~ Kate Mosse
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong, but I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.   The
~ Kate Williams
Dryden's original play, Marriage à la Mode, included the lines: "Why should a foolish marriage vow/ which long ago was made/ Oblige us to each other now/ When passion is decayed?
~ Katie Roiphe
He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.
~ Kazuya Minekura
She tried reason, arguing with herself as much as with him. What's the point of breaking my vow to my father, in order to make a marriage vow to you? If I break the first vow, the second is worthless.
~ Ken Follett
Is it so nominated in the bond?
~ William Shakespeare
Do not swear at all;Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,Which is the god of my idolatry.
~ William Shakespeare
A good mouth-filling oath.
~ William Shakespeare
carry him. That fateful afternoon the boy vowed that he would never ever
~ David Walliams
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
~ Deb Caletti
And I make a little vow then, to myself. To not let the backs and forths of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
~ Deb Caletti
le langage l'engage.
~ Jean Tardieu
Never again becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence. It's a prayer.
~ Elie Wiesel
I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cophetua sware a royal oath;"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson