#vowed

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

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#became #i #job #know #president

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. ↗

— George Weinberg

#being #heterosexual #i #more #proud

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. ↗

— Matt Groening

#grown-ups #i #kid #like #most

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

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

— Paulina Porizkova

#become #continue #how #i #intelligent