#vow

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#declared #feared #hatreds #more #openly

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#cartoonist #famous #felt #get #i

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now. ↗

— Mike Fink

#lucky #me #non-violence #now #pain

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #composed #fit #god #mind

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#due #every #family #father #genetics

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. ↗

— Bronislaw Malinowski

#find #forge #life #may #monastery

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#convalescence #exercise #had #i #long

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#become #continue #how #i #intelligent