#vow

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#compares #diary #every #every man #his

Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey." "That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age." "Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#crystal #gondola #karla #saul #seeking-crystal

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

#commitment #love #rose #sweet #vow

If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#druid #highlander #karen-marie-moning #moning #vow

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past. But Artists, who have been right from the beginning of the world, who were, perhaps, the only people who were right even in the beginning of the world, decorating pottery or designing rude frescoes on the rock when other people were fighting or offering human sacrifice, they have no right to despise their own past. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#avowals-and-denials #politics #progress #design

The only thing that's wrong with marriage & love now and days is that when people exchange vows & promise to stick for better or for worse ,to many only wanna stick through the best and don't work things out when it comes to the worst they take the easy way out by just giving up how can you give up on something so important it's like giving up on your dreams!! ↗

— Rosiermz

#love #love-story #marriage #vows #dreams

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#kiss #vows #forgiveness

There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#freedom #history #vows #freedom

What kinda vows?" Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway. ↗

— Cassandra Rose Clarke

#funny #vows #funny