Quotes About Loyalty

I don't know much about killing, but for you I'd learn!

Farid callaba. Sus oídos amaban la voz de Lengua de Brujo. Era la voz que lo había sacado de su otra vida mísera, pero amaba más a Dedo Polvoriento, sin saber por qué.

Es mejor tener mil enemigos fuera de casa que uno dentro. Proverbio árabe

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Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return, they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

The girl and the book?" Mo held Meggie close again. "Of course. Now Capricorn can be sure I'll do what he wants.

You just have to make a hero believe you're on the side of what's right and just, and he'll go trotting after you like a lamb to the slaughter.

She still believed in words so much. Farid believed in other things: his knife, in courage and cunning. And friendship.

Can one heart love two boys at once?

The reason there's no use looking," said Mr. Beaver, "is that we know already where he's gone!" Everyone stared in amazement. "Don't you understand?" said Mr. Beaver. "He's gone to her, to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all." C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.

Bo : Prop's very brave and I'm good at cheering him up, so we make a good team.

That's why you never hear politicians talking about 'citizens,' it's all 'taxpayers,' as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care.

Sysadmins don't take holidays

He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was how good people did shitty things: one tiny rotten compromise at a time. Well, he wasn't going to go there.

The trick isn't to fight the aristocracy, it's to find one who isn't too terrible, who has his hands on the reins of power, and make friends. Make yourself useful. The quid pro quo in feudalism is the protection of the lord from the marauders sent forth by the other lords.

The truth is that abandoned dog following you over sea and land, baying from barren clifftops, never tiring and never quitting, forever pining after you—and the day will come when that dog is on your porch, scratching insistently at your door, forcing you to claim it once again.

Later, long after he took up residence in the White House, people asked again and again what the Russians had on Trump. And in a way, it's really quite simple: They owned him.—

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.

A promise is a promise if it is made in blood.

I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.

Aika often says that she is the only one capable of loving me the same way I am is the one capable of loving her, and no one will be able to stand my twisted personality other than her and for me to betray her is unthinkable and impossible

From then on, as long as I was at Ault, I would never be alone. Martha and I would get along, our friendship would last. I felt certainty and relief. Years later, I heard a minister at a wedding describe marriage as cutting sorrow in half and doubling joy, and what I thought of was not the guy I was seeing then, nor even of some perfect, imaginary husband I might meet later; I thought immediately of Martha.