Quotes About Loyalty

Oh, I resented her at first. The whole 'in sickness and in health' thing, but I eventually came to realize it was for the best. If someone stays for any reason other than they want to be there, it will only lead to resentment. And then what do you have?" "Two miserable people," Ida Belle said. "Exactly," Nolan agreed.

Mildred was old-fashioned in a lot of ways, but family wasn't one of them. Blood didn't make someone love you. It didn't make someone treat you right.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

Nothing like being with people you've known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can't create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn't the same.

If you keep secrets from your father, to whom can you tell them? If you hide food from your mother, to whom can you give it?

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.

Pakhan gives an order, we obey. He's our leader. The father of our group. A man who rules with an iron fist but pledges loyalty to the men beneath him. In turn, we swear our allegiance to him.

he is like a soldier or a saint: blank-faced, and given wholly to an obedience he does not need to understand.

They had joked together as young men that they planned to die before their wives; it was the best way, since neither man could imagine life without them.

Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go.

If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.

Had her brother lived to face a trial, Asia surely would have been charged, for Booth used her home as a safe house, taught her the Confederate cipher code and entrusted her with papers

was held captive in my home. I should have told the soldiers who came with guns drawn and bayonets at the ready this true thing: I might have stopped him, for I harbored him and kept his secrets. I was a pie safe locked tight and guilty as he. ——— Asia Booth Clarke was thirty years old and pregnant with her first child when Union soldiers and Federal detectives stormed her Maryland home in search of her assassin-brother.

I'm not alone," said the boy. "I've got a puppy.

She could feel the emotion in the place pressing up against the walls, all eyes alert, hearts beating as one, the sense that everyone there was part of something bigger than themselves. That was a powerful emotion. It was the emotion that the Third Reich relied on. It was the kind of emotion that could move mountains.

I ain't never known you to fight over a woman, Cardone," Clint remarked. "This one I will." -Clint & Lynx

John [Adams] supposed there were two reasons why the British had gone after John Hancock. First, they wanted to make an example out of him, showing what would happen to anyone, no matter how rich, who dared to defy the new Townshend Act. Second, John Hancock was the biggest financial support of men like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. In fact, John Adams was reasonably sure that Sam Adams had no money whatsoever and that John Hancock was paying all his bills.

The soldiers repeated this at the second and then the third Confederate

But more important, how could he prove to Olivia that she was worth not only rearranging heaven and earth and a few paltry mountains for, but also the very fabric of life?

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.

I'd bitch slap the devil for you.

She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight." [Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?" "Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home." I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it being tonight," he said.

All in all, Maggy concluded, she had done right. Tocohol knew that she could not see the ship from here, so Maggy had not lied to a friend. She had told a pleasing story, and she was very proud of her new ability.