Quotes About Loyalty

There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller's sister.

Well, we're all in this together, boys. Each one of us must think, not of himself, but of his pals. We must stick by our pals, which means our country. Our country is our people, remember. It took a war like this one to bring that home to everybody.

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mandassero con lei il suo seguito, il

Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely cannot understand how after eating my fill here I could go past a bakery and steal a roll.

And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying: 'There is no better lord than ours under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well, and gives us work suited to our strength. He bears no malice, and never speaks a harsh word to any one. He is not like other masters, who treat their slaves worse than cattle: punishing them whether they deserve it or not, and never giving them a friendly word. He wishes us well, does good, and speaks kindly to us. We do not wish for a better life.

I know more of the world than you do," she said. "I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak of his talking of you with her. That never happened. Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them. Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family. They draw a sort of line that can't be crossed between them and their families. I don't understand it, but it is so.

Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.

Tushin did not tell him that there were no covering troops, though that was the plain truth. He was afraid to let down another officer that way and silently, with fixed eyes, looked straight into Bagration's face, as a confused student looks into his examiner's eyes.

When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog. When he put his foot down it sank in. To make quite sure of the firmness of the ground, he put his other foot down and sank deeper still, became stuck in it, and involuntarily waded knee-deep in the bog.

because no one knew that she had only a few days ago refused a man whom she perhaps loved, and refused him because she trusted another.

Moscow was burned by its citizens -- that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away.

Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.

consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, or simply to pour out your soul to somebody - not now, but when your soul is clear - remember me.

We are concerned here with either real traitors or complete imbeciles. But imbecility, raised to this level, is equal to treason.

The Bund (Jewish) is free not to trust the party, but it cannot expect the party to vote no confidence in its own self.

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

I'm your man.

Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?