Swear Quotes - Page 21

• I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

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• The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Stars, Moon

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.210, Scholastic UK

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• I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Littles, Know Me, Stills

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• I've never been this wet in my life, " said Kira. "Even immersed in a bathtub I swear I was dryer than I am now. " "Look on the bright side, " said Marcus. Kira waited. "This is the point at which you would traditionally suggest a bright side. " "I've never been a real traditional guy," said Marcus. "Besides, I'm not saying I know a bright side, I just think this would be a great time to look at one.

  Dan Wells

  Real, Thinking, Guy

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.38, HarperCollins UK

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• I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

  Jay Asher

  War, Fire, Jumping

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

  Ridley Pearson

  Mean, Games, Kingdoms

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• I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Nice, Advice, Looks

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• I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Player, Dope

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

  Kiersten White

  Men, New Words, Shocked

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• The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

  Rihanna

  Feeling Alone, Feelings

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, Design, Important

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• In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

  Peter Cheeke

  House, Bird, Environmental

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• In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, Suggestions

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Sadness, Thug, Three

  Song: Miss U, Album: Life After Death

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• I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

  Rutger Hauer

  Running, Heart, Fighting

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• I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

  Hank Azaria

  Weekend, Watches, Currents

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• My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

  Tom Conti

  Kitchen, Plot, Utensils

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  Billy Gardell

  Class, Chicago, Pittsburgh

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• Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

  Nelly

  Believe, Egotism, Humans

  Song: Splurge, Album: Nellyville

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• When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

  Kenny Chesney

  Friday, Country, Real

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• The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

  Frank Zappa

  Evil, Tails, Widows

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• There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

  Ewan McGregor

  Scotland, Cracks, Scots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

  Eminem

  Daughter, Art, Media

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• The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Family, Moon, Night

  Song: Voodoo Chile, Album: Electric Ladyland

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• It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Lying, World, Danger

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