Vow Quotes - Page 10

• When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Stronger, Handshake

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• I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Axes, Ice, Snow

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• I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

  Blake Shelton

  Anniversary, Thinking, Rest Of Your Life

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Reason

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• Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Team, Commitment

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• Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Nightfall, Middle Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Indecision, Resolution

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Ethics, Restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Sobriety, Moderation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unbound, Persons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perdition

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Firmness, Stability

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Taken, Broken, Promise

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Deeds, Spirit, Fulfillment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Rocks, Anchors

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

  Andrew Schneider

  Crush, Real, Sleep

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• Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Strong, Lips

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself, to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill.

  Jill Scott

  Singing, Acting, Needs

  "Interview: Jill Scott talks ‘Baggage Claim,’ Auditioning for Anthony Minghella & Acting". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 25, 2013.

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• I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Cancer, Inward

  Source: therumpus.net

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• let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

  e. e. cummings

  Wise, Liars, Broken

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

  Alfred the Great

  Snaps

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• How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.

  Alan AtKisson

  Heart, Simple, Journey

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• I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?

  C. J. Anderson

  Taste, Clean, Cherubs

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• You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious, Heart, Names

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• After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Years, Trying, Liberty

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