Quotes About Pledging

#1. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.

Gillian Flynn

#3. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Barack Obama

#4. They (the corporations) are counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to stand at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket.

Bill Moyers

#5. Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

Mariano Rajoy

#6. She closed her eyes and lowered her head, feeling like a knight taking a knee and pledging her sword to a far superior warrior.

Reki Kawahara

#7. Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#8. Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Barack Obama

#9. When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

Stephen Covey

#10. You can forget Stalin," he said, pledging his allegiance. "We're not the History Channel.

Timur Vermes

#11. The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

John Vance Cheney

#12. This is the reality of the human heart, the inevitability of two sinful people pledging to live together, with all their faults, for the rest of their lives.

Gary L. Thomas

#13. When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

P.C. Cast

#14. The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

Joseph Heller

#15. He was a writer and words were his weapons.

Christopher Moore

#16. Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life-

Sai Baba

#17. Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Vincent Van Gogh

#20. I don't believe in raw evil."
Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

Maggie Stiefvater

#21. There is no such thing as too much lace on your underwear," Zurra explained. "Do you know who said that? George Washington.

Aaron Lee Yeager

#22. In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Reed Hastings

#23. How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all.

Saul Bellow

#24. Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

Marianne Williamson

#25. It would hurt to leave, but its what I had to do. Besides, growing pains were supposed to hurt a little.

S.C. Stephens

#26. Nothing has ever been out of place in this existence. Things have been out of place in human societies.

Jaggi Vasudev

#27. I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

Banana Yoshimoto