When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.” — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you… — John Green Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
[I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine…On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can… — Glenn Thompson Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. — Homer Copy Share Image
Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image