(50 quotes found)
“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”
George William Curtis
“Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god.”
Voltaire
“Matthew's search for stories of people that he could help led him to an abandoned hospital in New Orleans, ... Inside were beloved pets that families had been forced to leave behind during this evacuation. One man vowed to keep them alive. And Matthew went to help him.”
Oprah Winfrey
“[Gilmore, however, vows to proceed.] The fact of the matter is, I'm going to move, ... This is a commission that has broad representation on it ... all points of view are going to be heard.”
James Gilmore
“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life”
“Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.”
Bible
“But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.”
“I'm very pleased. I have the same concerns: can one of them (Private Vow) go far enough and if the other one (Storm Treasure) is fast enough.”
Steve Asmussen
“And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; / And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.”
