To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with… — John Barlas Copy Share Image
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow…" "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
O how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused his goodness to pass before me! And… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What are you going to tell her?' 'That I'll do whatever she wants,' my sister says, an extravagant vow for a mortal… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents.… — John Francis Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image