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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. -- Thomas Fuller
I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener. -- Kimbra
Vows begin when hope dies. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. -- John Milton
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. -- Robert Browning
Men's vows are women's traitors! -- William Shakespeare
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. -- Rumi
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. -- George William Curtis
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise. -- Brad Paisley
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. -- J. Paul Getty
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. -- Sam Kinison
I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. -- Michael Schiavo
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
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence. -- Akiva ben Joseph
What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better. -- America Ferrera
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
I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. -- Mary Steenburgen
I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.' -- Brendon Urie
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. -- Orison Swett Marden
Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted? -- John Ridley
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. -- Jim Harrison
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. -- Pope John Paul II
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
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. -- Alice Hoffman
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
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding. -- Jessica Valenti
No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts. -- Jean Chatzky
Men's vows are women's traitors -- William Shakespeare
With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. -- Francis Quarles
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. -- John Dryden
Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. -- George R. R. Martin
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. -- Marlene Dietrich
I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy. -- Emo Philips
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. -- William Penn
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god. -- Voltaire
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. -- David Letterman
Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace -- Ezra Taft Benson
The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. -- Leigh Bardugo
Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time. -- Myles Munroe
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. -- William Shakespeare
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. -- Beatrice Lillie
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. -- William Shakespeare
It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass. -- Rachel Caine
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. -- Carolyn Wheat
But he knew full well that marriage vows were not a guarantee, nor a promise, of everlasting happiness. -- Kristen Callihan
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. -- Joycelyn Elders
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much. -- Ben Jonson
Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family. -- Nicholas Sparks
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. -- Maria Edgeworth
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. -- William Shakespeare
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us. -- Samuel Johnson
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. -- Timothy Keller
Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows. -- Heather Day Gilbert
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. -- Sam Ewing
It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair. -- Victor Hugo
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel. -- Sallust
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. -- Richard Paul Evans
Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. -- Mercedes Lackey
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. -- Myles Munroe
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. -- Catullus
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. -- Annie Dillard
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
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow? -- James Hogg
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed. -- Leonard Cohen
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. -- Annie Dillard
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more. -- Tenzin Palmo
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
At the end of every challenge comes success. No level of struggle can outlast a mind that vows to never quit when things get rough and tough. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others. -- Vincent de Paul
Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up. -- Marilyn Johnson
By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying. -- Dorothy Parker
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray. -- Brenda Perlin
Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes -- Ngina Otiende
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Norm Phelps
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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
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. -- Anna Quindlen
As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be. -- Nicholas Sparks
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. -- William Shakespeare
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I love her, Rajasta, I love her too much to hurt her; and I can give her nothing! No vows, no hope of real happiness, only sorrow and pain and, perhaps, shame... -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever." -- Kristin Hannah
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. -- Dan Millman
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows. -- Pope Innocent III
This isnâ??t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Loveâ??s a dictator. -- David Mitchell
....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever. -- Kristin Hannah
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off. -- William Shakespeare
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world. -- Elizabeth George
You see, love is a funny thing. There are no guarantees, just the day-to-day and the moment. You make vows, hope for the best, and do your damnedest to love the person you're with. -- Jennifer Probst
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. -- John Dryden
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows. -- Charles Bukowski
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. -- Herman Melville

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