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  • Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

    Mean   Men   Youth  
    'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1056
  • Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can be certain that the ethics of that generation have been abandoned. ... What our society needs is a good dose of biblical ethic from God's people - the kind of ethic that requires us to keep our word no matter what the costs. Situational ethics have so shaped our society that even God's people have lost the concept of absolutes when it comes to keeping our word.

  • A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

    Mean   Men   Imagination  
  • There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

  • [I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine....On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can also say without hesitation, that the quality of healthcare in this county is second to none - and sacrificing quality to achieve these necessary reforms is not acceptable. A single payer, government run healthcare system is the worst possible way to achieve this goal.

  • Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

    Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.145, Zed Books
  • A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

    Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers
  • Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

  • There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.

    Night   Offering   Names  
  • I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

    Reading   Dawn   Want  
    Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 1823”
  • Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

    Abstinence   Condom   Vow  
    "Dr. Joycelyn Elders Is So Fucking Cool" by Kate Harding, June 03, 2007.
  • Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

  • When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

    Prayer   Wind   Sea  
  • The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

    Smart   Wise Words   Vow  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics
  • Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

    Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”
  • It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.

    Heart   Past   Tree  
    Sir Thomas Malory, Keith Baines (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur”
  • Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

    Book   Mind   Passionate  
  • May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

    Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.6, Shambhala Publications
  • A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.116, Tara Publishing
  • In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

  • Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

    "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.
  • During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

    Death   War   Men  
  • Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.

    Baby   Voice   Brave  
  • Vows begin when hope dies.

    Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”
  • I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

  • How is it you’ve never married?” A soft splash. “It’s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.

    Morning   Night   Years  
  • Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

    Attitude   Sincere   Vow  
  • Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

    Lasts   Vow   Scene  
  • With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

    Revenge   Vow   Flux  
    Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.35
  • Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

    Self   Ethics   Vow  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”
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