Vow Quotes - Page 13

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sin, Break, Greater

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• 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

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Curiosity

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• Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mirrors, Broken, Bleeding

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Promise Me”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Pages

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.475

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• Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Grief, Responsibility

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• 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

  Land, Scary, Ends

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• If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, College, Men

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• 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

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Men, World

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.332, Herman Melville

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• Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Religion, Able

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• The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Contracts, Ceremony, Binding

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• It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.

  Orison S. Marden

  Ambition, Reality, Expression

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• I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Soul, Promise

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 115

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• 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

  Mean, Doe, Unbreakable

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• "What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks.
  "No," I say.
  "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta."

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Eye, Past

  "Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2009.

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• With Blue here, he was beginning to feel as if possibly he'd overdone it with the helicopter. He wondered if it would make Blue feel better or worse to know that it was Helen's helicopter, that he hadn't paid anything today for the use of it. Probably worse. Remembering his vow to at least do no harm with his words, he kept his mouth shut.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Feel Better, Blue, Use

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

  Rumi

  Reading, Dawn, Want

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 1823”

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• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Desire, Gondor

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.464, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

  Julia Quinn

  Hands, Feet, Warm

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• Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Moving, People

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• I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

  Bob Goff

  School, College, Thinking

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.207, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? " 

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Mean, Writing

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Aug 28, 2016

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• 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.

  Melissa Marr

  Hurt, Pain, Leaving

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• 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

  Wish, Church, Remember

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