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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. -- John Keats
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. -- Lord Kelvin
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. -- Kirk Cameron
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. -- Pope John Paul II
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? -- Pierre Loti
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America. -- Jim Ryun
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. -- Godfrey Reggio
Men's vows are women's traitors -- William Shakespeare
A vow is a snare for sin -- Samuel Johnson
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. -- Thomas Fuller
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. -- William Penn
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. -- Tertullian
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. -- William Shakespeare
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. -- William Shakespeare
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. -- Mahatma Gandhi
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. -- J. D. Salinger
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. -- Bronislaw Malinowski
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
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems -- Pope John XXIII
I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made. -- Hope Solo
Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life -- Wayne Dyer
Vow to always persevere through your struggles, challenges, and obstacles until you arrive at the rewarding end of them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned. -- William Arthur Ward
Vow not to be like those who tend to allow their difficulties to distract them from the enormous rewards ahead. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. -- Ann Landers
An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can't have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I'm sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. -- J. K. Rowling
The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do. -- Channing Tatum
I'm taking a vow not to advise. -- Barbara Bush
Those that vow the most are the least sincere. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. -- Rick Perry
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. -- Amy Grant
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence. -- John Francis
When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy. -- Jessica White
The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart. -- Pope Francis
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
I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half. -- Bill Rancic
I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom. -- Amanda Lindhout
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. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything. -- Jill Scott
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. -- Channing Tatum
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. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. -- Alex Berenson
I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost. -- Jonathan Silverman
The word of God is my vow. -- Pittacus Lore
I took a vow of political celibacy. -- Mitch Daniels
I vow to live fully in each moment. -- Nhat Hanh
The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself. -- Alfred the Great
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified. -- J. Otis Yoder
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. -- George Sand
Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Take a vow for a life of service to others. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor. -- Mother Teresa
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. -- George Colman the Elder
Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. -- Catherine of Aragon
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave. -- Voltaire
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. -- Thomas Otway
Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow. -- John Betjeman
Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something. -- Cindy Gerard
I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? -- Karen Hawkins
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised? -- Jane Yolen
I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now. -- Morrissey
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. -- Deb Caletti
A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed. -- Lizelle DuPlessis
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice. -- Buddy Wakefield
I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm. -- Julia Quinn
Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now. -- Morrissey
I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you. -- George R. R. Martin
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come. -- Rumi
Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings. -- Tenzin Palmo
I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul. -- Rob Brezsny
I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste? -- C.J. Anderson
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. -- William Shakespeare
Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let plants identify me. -- Robert Aitken
Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed? --
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. -- Lena Dunham
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. -- Maria Edgeworth
Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise. -- Emily Yoffe
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. -- Geoffrey Canada
When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence. -- Jason Fuchs
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes -- Tenzin Palmo
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii -- William Shakespeare
"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future." -- Charles Dickens
The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success. -- Gwen Stefani
Respect your self-worth, and vow not to be like those who make themselves very availiable for people who are unavailiable for them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. -- Homer
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter. -- Niall Horan
The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick. -- Jenna Morasca
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician. -- Chris Patten
One of the best decisions that you could ever make in your life, is to vow to never accept quitting as a final answer. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to. -- Matthew Vaughn
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! -- Paul Tillich
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. -- Neil Gaiman
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. -- Roger Lewis
Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention. -- Andrew Carnegie
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste. -- Andre Gide
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do -- Fulton J. Sheen
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now. -- Epictetus
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. -- Ariel Sharon
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. -- Nicholas Sparks
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. -- Elinor Glyn
Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites! -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.' -- Chellie Pingree

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