Swear Quotes - page 2

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen. (Howard Zinn)
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood? View quote
William Hazlitt
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. View quote
Kim Campbell
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence. View quote
Bayard Rustin
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. View quote
Willie Nelson
I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them. View quote
Kate Moss
She knows her man, and when you rant or swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. View quote
John Dryden
My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on. View quote
Laura Nyro
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. View quote
Barbara Boxer
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again. View quote
Edith Wharton
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer. (Roger Zelazny)
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. View quote
Leo Burnett
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel.... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood. View quote
Abu Bakar Bashir
I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem. View quote
Yasser Arafat
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem. View quote
Yasser Arafat
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy. View quote
Friedrich Engels
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
What is a "heart of great forbearance?” As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at-you must be tolerant. Otherwise, what kind of practitioner will you be? View quote
Li Hongzhi
God is a witness that cannot be sworn. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need. View quote
Jerry Siegel
With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. (Ray Bradbury)
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. View quote
Carl Sagan
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself? View quote
George Steiner
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? View quote
Terry Pratchett
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. View quote
Terry Pratchett