Quotes About Loyalty

Nick Murray has been a Mets fan all his life. Before that, he rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Baseball manager Casey Stengel once quipped, "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

The difference between belief and trust can be monumental. We may believe in others, but do we really trust them? To firmly trust people means putting your own successes and health in their hands.

What I can say with honesty is that my research in Russia and in Germany has brought me nothing but the worsening of my eyesight and the waste of years of my life. And I did it all for you.

Cameron Slater: he is a very silly man, because I could stop the people who are going against him. But now, he is just going to get double. Judith Collins: you know the rule. always reward with Double. Cameron Slater: i learned the rule from you! Double it is. Judith Collins: If you can't be loved, then best to be feared.15

A battle, shield wall to shield wall. Linden wood to linden wood. She imagined meeting a man the size of Forthere, huge with battle rage, stinking with it; dogs dripping and snarling at her legs, her arms. Sharp swords cleaving down, splintering shields, crushing skulls, slicing off faces. Men sworn to follow their lord or die. Victory or death, no middle ground.

Hild faced him influencing, because Edwin was like a dog: show fear and he would chose you down. But then she broke her gaze. To challenge an uneasy before his men was to invite death.

We ride in service to a dream from the gods. If our dreamer's horse fails, you will give her yours. If her food runs low, you will her your own. She will light our way. And now we ride.

You must learn to speak those thoughts of yours sometimes, child, or those who watch-like those gesith hounds of yours-will decide for themselves what you think, who you are, whose side you are on. For there are sides. Though I don't know which is yours.

If I chose Kick, she would accept us without reservation and never remind me of this conversation by word or deed; she would close over it like the ocean over a swimmer's head.

She had to be the king's fist, a killer. She had asked for this task. It must be done.

The tribe, the tribe, nothing but the tribe. It was all she knew. I just didn't matter to her, in the end. I belonged to the tribe, I was subhuman, won though everything in her heart told her otherwise. How can people do that?" "Perhaps she did what she could to help." "She was my jailer." "She taught you to survive.

Hild felt herself split in two: the butcher-bird thinking, I could take him, and the seer, I serve the king.

She raised her cup to Edwin and wondered how much longer she could help him stay king.

The king would never let Hild go, not now. Not until she was dead or of no more use.

She'd be best off here with the princess with the slaughter seax.

He drinks coffee. I kill the people who mess with his girlfriends.

Find people. People you know are on your side. Not a priest. Not a slave. Kings die, even overkings. Especially overkings. So find people.

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

I'm your friend. I have been for a long time, even if I sometimes wonder if you know what that means.

The three women were gracious but remote, dry-eyed players in the royal mummery of Eorpwald and Edwin's grander farewell: the pledges of honor and allegiance between king and overking.

Gwenhwyfar looked at her husband and quivered like a leashed hound with the scent.

You couldn't see her good points for her bad. Ah, now your face is closing up. I haven't seen that face in a while. No doubt you're thinking, He doesn't know the half of it and I'm not going to ruin his image of his fiancée by telling him. Tell me, did she try to seduce you? Yes, I thought so. She tried it with all my other friends who didn't like her." "I-" "Oh, I know, you turned her down.

You're mine. You'll grow old in my household, die warm and well fed. You're my bodywoman. Some services I'll require, from time to time. But I won't…I won't.