Made Quote by Lauren Oliver Download Open image “This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.” — Lauren Oliver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Made Oath Obedience Pledge Promise
Oath-taking is really a pathetic confession of our own dishonesty. What do we find it necessary to introduce our promises by some tremendous formula?… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Accept promises of only those persons who can steadfastly adhere to their pledges. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling. — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people’s honor as well. To break an… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I… — Rob S. Rice Copy Share Image
“My aunt Carol hasn’t heard her say a word in the whole six years and three months of Grace’s life—not a single syllable. Carol… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Julian is somewhere among those lights, in that blur of people and buildings. I wonder whether he's scared. I wonder whether he's thinking of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“She’s the kind of person who makes you feel drunk just by being around her, like suddenly the world’s edges are dulled and all… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
