Quotes About Loyalty

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

It's the side of reason that I'm on," Teddy said. "It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

He preferred solitary pursuits, and being a member of a group seemed rather dutiful, but he could do dutiful and somebody had to or the world would fall apart.

He wondered sometimes if it wasn't so much that Tommy and Andy shared a secret as that they liked to make him think they shared a secret. Men never really left the snigger of the schoolyard, they just grew bigger.

What a good husband you are, Nancy said afterward, always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's. It's the side of reason I am on, Teddy said. It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

Jessica was easier, her character already fixed at the age of eight. Loyal, resourceful, confident, annoying. Clever, too clever sometimes. Too clever for her own good , their father said but their mother said, That's impossible. Especially for a girl.

You might have thought that people would want their kids to stop eating Bassani's ice cream after what had happened.

And together they had committed a hideous act, the kind of thing that binds you to someone forever, whether you like it or not.

Everything was from duty, nothing from love. Duty killed you in the end.

quoting Elizabeth I. Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Tradition, Honor, Excellence.

And Dan, who had maintained all during our schism that we were both insane, welcomed me back as if nothing had ever happened, still his same warm, laconic, wry self.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

I promise to always turn back toward you.

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.

smiled back. Winn-Dixie

see it tomorrow?" I asked. "Child," she said, "as long as this is my garden, you're welcome in it. But that tree ain't going to have changed much by tomorrow." "But I want to see you, too," I said. "Hmmmph," said Gloria Dump. "I ain't going nowhere. I be right here." I woke Winn-Dixie up then. He had peanut butter

I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye. That's what I love about you. Your precision.

No greater bond existed than love sealed by trust.

Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.

I care only for the people who are useful to me—and only so long as they are useful," he said on St. Helena.