Vow Quotes

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

A vow is a snare for sin

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

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

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

Vows begin when hope dies.

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

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.

*Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

I will find her." "And when you do?" Roger asked. "I will make her mine," the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. "She will be mine." The vow was made.

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

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?

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

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

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

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

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional.