Vow Quotes · Page 8

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

— Rumi

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

— Voltaire

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

— Emily Dickinson

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

— Timothy Keller

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

— Anne Bradstreet

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

— Anonymous

I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

— Niall Horan

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

— Karen Hawkins

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

— Sam Kinison

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

— Anonymous

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have…

— Ami Bera

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look…

— Ani DiFranco

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows…

— Herman Melville

“For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. I’ll stay here. With you. By your…

— Rachel Van Dyken

“Burning coals, making perfect shaped round rotis, massaging her husband’s back, carrying pots of water across miles would not be her fate.…

— Tina Sequeira

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles…

— David Mitchell

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on…

— Ernest Shackleton

…both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words…

— Kristin Hannah

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant…

— Michael Chabon

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a…

— Demi Moore

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.…

— Pat Conroy

Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep.…

— William Nicholson

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let…

— Shana Alexander

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material…

— David Shi

Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've…

— Barack Obama

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to…

— Jodi Picoult

Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He…

— Nora Ephron

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…

— Anonymous

How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire?…

— Alan AtKisson

What Happens What happens when your soul Begins to awaken Your eyes And your heart And the cells of your body To…

— Hafez

How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like…

— Anonymous

I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really…

— Jessica White

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

— Gwen Stefani

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Carolyn Wheat

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this…

— James Hogg

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Beatrice Lillie