Quotes About Loyalty

being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

Dogs were always a problem. They don't like me and they quite often disapprove of what I do to their masters, especially since I don't share the good pieces.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

No, you don't understand. She told me to get you back. She's made up her mind and I don't dare disobey. She hits very hard.

Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.

Deborah was the only person on earth who knew what I really was, and even though she was still getting used to the idea, I had thought she understood the very careful boundaries set up by Harry, and understood, too, that I would never cross them.

Show that good old team spirit. Wave the flag, give 'em hell, and all that.

Would she really abandon me, her own dear brother? Leave me to a fate worse than death, although certainly including it? I didn't think she would, not willingly. I took a sip of water and tried to think it through. She

He didn't even try. He just stared at me for another long moment. There was nothing to hide under, so I just looked back, and finally he turned back to Deborah. "I won't rat out my own son, Sergeant," he said, in a voice that was almost a hiss. "No matter what you think he's done.

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere

We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major." Armistead

Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and . . . love them?

It's not hard to impress your clients. Give them what you promised, give them great customer support, and then give them an extra surprise or two along the way. Do those things and you will be paid back 100 times. And

I thought myself better adapted to command in the field; and Mississippi had given me the position which I preferred to any other—the highest rank in her army. It was, therefore, that I afterward said, in an address delivered in the Capitol, before the Legislature of the State, with reference to my election to the Presidency of the Confederacy, that the duty to which I was thus called was temporary, and that I expected soon to be with the Army of Mississippi again.

You're used to expecting some North Korean or some Iranian in a MiG to drop out of the sun and lock on. But when the people supposed to be on your side do it, well, it really throws you. Makes you feel dirty, betrayed.

For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.

Remember what Lyndon Johnson said about J. Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Just as soon as I get this cast off, Fletcher said, I'm going to kick your ass. You shouldn't speak to Dr Renwick like that, after all he's done for you, said Nat, with a grin. Why not? asked Fletcher. He filled me up with your blood, so now I'm half the man I was. Wrong again, said Nat. You're twice the man you were, but still half the man I am.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march toward you and become even closer friends.

Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

loyalty doesn't have a price. It has to be earned.

Legend has it that they were never apart for more than a few hours.

There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to