Vow Quotes - Page 9

• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.252

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• I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

  Martin Amis

  Kings, Writing, Giving

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

  David Letterman

  Reading, Email, Sony

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• It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

  Carolyn Wheat

  World, Poverty, Illness

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• Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
  gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
  wise counsel.

  Sallust

  Success, Wise, Prayer

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• There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in The Journey Home. I loved my family and they loved me, so making a choice so completely different from the life they knew was also a challenge. Not having material possessions or the security of a home and taking vows of celibacy for life were kind of natural for me, although they were also challenging. But I guess the greatest challenge for me was that I loved so many different spiritual paths.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Home, Journey

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lying, Struggle, Moving

  "Four Sonnets - IV" l. 9 (1922)

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• 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

  Book, Light, Way

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• We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Strong, Passion, Heart

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• Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

  Isaac Babel

  Fighting, Years, Office

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• So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

  Edmund Spenser

  Purple, Malice, Breaths

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.193

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• Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow

  William Nicholson

  Sleep, Night, Hands

  William Nicholson (2012). “Firesong”, p.209, Egmont UK

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• *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 *

  Carrie Underwood

  Lying, Missing, Over You

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.

  A. E. Housman

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Writing, Names, Paper

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

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• When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in the vows column, which is really traditionally kind of seen as an elitist column, and it is, but I was happy to be in it. I thought it was good that they were covering a feminist wedding.

  Jessica Valenti

  New York, Feminist, Style

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Buddhist, Compassion, Practice

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• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  Barbara Bush

  Advise

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• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  George William Curtis

  New Year, Determination, Years

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• Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Should Have, Spirituality

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Rio De Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 22, 2013.

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• 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

  Christian, Stars, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.81, Penguin Group

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• 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

  Anniversary, Loyalty, Honesty

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