Vowed Quotes

#1. A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

William J. Clinton

#2. I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Louise Erdrich

#3. Touch her," he vowed in a low voice, "and I'll feed you to the gators, piece by piece." Macon

Linda Lael Miller

#4. This is the last time we run, lass, I swear it," he vowed hoarsely, grabbing her hand. "But this time, we have to run like hell." - Tadhg to his Maggie

Kris Kennedy

#5. [Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#6. My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live
to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love
loved am I!

Charlotte Bronte

#7. The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

George R R Martin

#8. I shall return, it vowed. I shall return.

Brent Weeks

#9. I didn't realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. 'I do,' I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. 'I do,' he vowed.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

George W. Bush

#11. I love you, Lottie, and I want to make you my wife." Stone's low voice rumbled between them. Ardent. Unwavering. Determined. "I'll pursue you," he vowed, "until a parson either joins us in marriage or speaks words over my grave.

Karen Witemeyer

#12. Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Erica Jong

#13. You'll never lose me, angel," he vowed. "Wherever you go, however far, I'll be right here with you.

Sylvia Day

#14. When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

Jello Biafra

#15. I ... you know, I ... look, after 9/11, I vowed to protect this country.

George W. Bush

#16. Fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#17. With horror he saw that her hair was already afire as the tarred stake burned about her head. He held her agonized gaze with his fierce black eyes. "I'll love you forever, and beyond," he vowed as he raised both arms and plunged his sword into her heart.

~Marcus Magnus

Virginia Henley

#18. In his first week on the throne, he vowed to make peace with all the nations we've ever warred with, cut military spending in half, funnel the money to education, and ... oh, yes, and phase out the empire itself, instating some ridiculous people's republic with elected officials.

Lindsay Buroker

#19. Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.

Pervez Musharraf

#20. Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.

Melina Marchetta

#21. I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

Lauren Oliver

#22. vowed to herself that she wouldn't give him a son until after they were legally wed.

Danielle Yvette

#23. Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

Elizabeth Kostova

#24. Say. It." He jerked his head to her, his nostrils flaring and his face set in hard lines. "All right. You're a drough. I loathe droughs. I vowed to my family I would kill them all, especially the one responsible for their deaths.

Donna Grant

#25. I didn't fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I'd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I'd vowed never to do again.
I chose to love James.

Megan Hart

#26. Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered.
"That's all I'm asking for," I said,

Stephenie Meyer

#27. It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.

Elizabeth Camden

#28. George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

Francis Ford Coppola

#29. [James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].

Fob James

#30. Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

Sara Quin

#31. Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

Annie Dillard

#32. I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Obert Skye

#33. President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Karen Mills

#34. 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

#35. I am an Ultimate," she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. "And I have the
power to do the impossible.

Sheeza Iqbal

#36. When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

Markus Zusak

#37. A rumor began, possibly started by a certain dark-haired archer, that William had tragically lost his true love and had vowed to live with a broken heart.

Eli Easton

#38. One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.

Theodore Dalrymple

#39. A writer wasn't a body, just a byline. My words would be sharp and spiky, punchy and pointed; my stories would be swift and lean, sleek and enviable, moving fast and hitting hard. I would not, I vowed, write like a fat girl.

Jennifer Weiner

#40. He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.

L.M. Montgomery

#41. I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Catherine Fisher

#42. Senate Democrats vowed Sunday to kill President Bush's energy plan. They think this is their ticket back to the White House in 2004. All they have to do now is figure out a way to get cars to run on beautiful pictures of Alaska.

Argus Hamilton

#43. One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free, I vowed.

Rachel Higginson

#44. My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

Sidney Poitier

#45. As a girl, Scarlett had been drawn to the idea of Legend's magic. But Tella always wanted to hear about the master of Caraval's darker side. A part of Scarlett couldn't deny there was something seductive about winning the heart of someone who'd vowed to never love again.

Stephanie Garber

#46. And I vowed that were it ever within my power, I would see to it that he had his voyage.

C.W. Gortner

#47. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

Holly Black

#48. I vowed to kill Rhaegar for what he did to her." "You did," Ned reminded him. "Only once," Robert said bitterly.

George R R Martin

#49. So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard ...

Claire Messud

#50. I promise you forever," I vowed to him, staring into his green eyes. "Whatever that is. Whatever I can give you. You have all of it. All of me."
"I promise you forever," he replied. "Whatever that is. Whatever I can give you. You have all of it. All of me.

Jessica Verday

#51. Another five grand on top of the twenty-five large from Carlisle. I vowed not to tell Kiddiot. Knowing him, he would definitely demand I buy him more cat toys. The

David Freed

#52. They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.

Saskia Walker

#53. Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

Anita Brookner

#54. But what was happening to Gorse and Cynda was beyond serious. It was the sort of thing she'd vowed to stop someday. The day had just come early - too early, before she'd assembled a capable team. Not exactly the new dawn she'd had in mind.

John Jackson Miller

#55. I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions ... Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

King James I

#56. Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.

Morley Callaghan

#57. My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she'd never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Jarod Kintz

#58. She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Junot Diaz

#59. No," Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash's shirt. "I don't want this. Didn't want this to happen."
Screams resonated.
Bash continued quietly, "None of us do. That's not up to us. We have to decide what we're going to do with what we're given. Play the cards dealt to us.

Cate Campbell Beatty

#60. Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth.

Veronica Wolff

#61. When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

Patricia Cornwell

#62. She'd vowed to be braver and take more risks, but this seemed out of her league. Because sometimes what you wanted the most was the one thing you were most afraid to get.

Miranda Liasson

#63. Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

Gary Snyder

#64. I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kevin Kline

#65. Our people would rather go honorably in a fight against evil than cower under its hand." Raphael took a long, deep breath, his shoulders straightening and his head rising. "No one," he vowed, "will ever subjugate those who are our own. Never will we surrender.

Nalini Singh

#66. Even if we've never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church - even if we have, and vowed never to go back - deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.

Heather Choate Davis

#67. Gray's dark stare bored into the eyes of the pirate who held Maeve. If you so much as breathe on her, I'll kill you, he silently vowed,

Danelle Harmon

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. She loved him. There it was. The thing she'd vowed would never happen. She loved Theo Harp. Not just his body or his face. Not just for sex or companionship. Definitely not for his money. She loved him for who he was. For his beautiful, tortured, kind soul.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#71. Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that she had to give to the world, and she must live in the way that suited them best.

Elizabeth Goudge

#72. How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

Jodi Picoult

#73. I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

Barry Sheene

#74. Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore delighted Amanda, and she vowed from that time onward she would try to regulate each breath as if she were composing a poem.

Tom Robbins

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#76. After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm ... I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

Shauna James Ahern

#77. It was vowed that there would never be a charge made for entering said Park. It was a gentleman's agreement. But most of the gentlemen eventually died.

Jacob Clifford Moomaw

#78. He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Ann Brashares

#79. United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Roy Keane

#80. I winked at myself in the mirror and then realized that's what douchebags did, so I vowed to never do it again. I

T.J. Klune

#81. I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow.

Markus Zusak

#82. I will not be afraid, she vowed, wrapping the familiar words around her heart.

Sarah J. Maas

#83. No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.

Cassandra Clare

#84. I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.

Lawrence Hill

#85. Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again.

Carly Kade

#86. I wrapped my arms around my body, pushing away my doubts and indecision for just a moment, and looked out toward the cemetery. "Whatever it takes," I vowed. And as I said the words, I felt a chill run across my neck and a ghostly touch slide down my cheek

Catrina Burgess

#87. Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

Kim Harrison

#88. So I do what I always vowed not to do, and always found myself doing anyway. I throw "I miss you" into the breach. It even feels empty to me. Like I'm not saying it to the right person.

David Levithan

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

Robert Crumb

#90. [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

John Ashcroft

#91. He was now my world, and I vowed to do everything I possibly could to protect him.

Ashley Quigley

#92. When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#93. I have vowed to heal in the name of all beings. This vow is being fulfilled, Sofia, with the testimony of this book. I have shared this life experience with you in order to help my readers better recognize the power of their own mind.

Phakyab RINPOCHE

#94. My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#95. I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

Iman

#96. We hadn't vowed to write every day, and we hadn't written every day. We hadn't sworn to be true to each other, because there hadn't been much to be true to.

Rachel Cohn

#97. The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he

Walter Bower

#98. Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Steve Stockman

#99. Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.

Rick Riordan

#100. Henri grabbed my face, looking deeply into my eyes. "Love you," he vowed. "Love you." Then he turned and clutched Eikko's arm. "And love you. My good friend. Very good friend.

Kiera Cass