Quotes About Loyalty

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty.

He will toss everything aside if he must—Uther, the high kingship, Britain—before he will give up Morgan.

When Arthur was present, you did not look at anyone else.

I can't understand people being rude to their spouses. Your husband or wife should be the one person in the world you treat with loving patience. He or she chose you above all others-for a lifetime! And yet I see women who are nicer to their girlfriends, and men who are more thoughtful toward their employees. That's meshuganeh. Friends come and go. Employees move on. Your partner is there for the long haul. He deserves your best every day of your life.

Friends come and go. Employees move on. Your partner is there beside you for the long haul. He deserves your best every day of your life.

A book is your friend, and you don't break a friend's back.

There's no way I'm going to let a slang term invented by a scroungy dope dealer spoil my friend's cookie name.

There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.

Why can't they see, mon père? Why can't they see what the woman is doing to us? Breaking down our community spirit, our sense of purpose. playing on what is worst and weakest in the secret heart. Earning for herself a kind of affection, of loyalty that - God help me! - I am weak enough to covet.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?