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Quotes About Swore

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
~ Siobhan Fahey
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.
~ John Hollander
There was a sharp crack of splintering paneling, and Newt swore colorfully in Latin.
~ Kim Harrison
But then they weren't materialists at all!" He swore with disgust. "No wonder Marxism is dead." "Well, sir, actually a lot of people on Mars call themselves Marxists." "Shit! They might as well call themselves Zoroastrians, or Jansenists, or Hegelians." "Marxists are Hegelian, sir." "Shut up," Frank snarled, and broke the connection.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.
~ Diana Gabaldon
No. I'm a witcher! When they were teaching me, I swore I would act against Evil. Always. And without thinkin...' 'Because when you start thinking,' she added hollowly, 'killing stops making sense. Revenge stops making sense.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
~ T. J. Miller
That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind
~ Alice Hoffman
That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind. It brought up ancient fears and scattered them on the street like pearls.
~ Alice Hoffman
Invoked a curse and swore (Matt. 26:74; Mark 14:71). The text does not specify on whom Peter called down curses, though the ESV and other translations include "on himself," implying that he was calling for curses to come upon him if he was lying. Alternatives are that he was cursing the ones who were accusing him of knowing Christ or that he was actually cursing Christ, amplifying his sense of guilt. Certainty is not possible.
~ John H. Walton
His voice, softly cultured as ever, showed little of the emotional strain until he dropped his hands to his side and swore.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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
All I knew for sure was that all the hocuses in the Mirador swore oaths on the Virtu every single day, and that was what kept the Mirador from tearing itself apart. No matter how you felt about the hocuses sitting on top of the city like a pack of vultures, you didn't want the Virtu broken.
~ Sarah Monette
Meg swore and hopped, nursing a bruised toe.
~ Barbara Michaels
Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.
~ Keri Hilson
Memory deficiency got so bad with me, I forgot to repeat a piece of gossip I swore on my Grandmother's Grave never to divulge.
~ bombeck erma iii
For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
~ Robert Graves
The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.
~ Bram Stoker
Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are.
~ Junot Diaz
I swore I would never do a reality show. I've been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy - I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family - or anything, for that matter.
~ Drea De Matteo
The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.
~ Bram Stoker
A roar rumbled in Curran's throat. Barabas sat back a bit. I shuddered. "So scary. Still can't tell you." He opened his mouth. "Lorelei," I said. Curran swore. Barabas
~ Ilona Andrews
Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. You (censored)—(deleted)—(omitted)—(unprintability), he roared.
~ Murray Leinster