Quotes About Loyalty

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

I like dogs considerably more than I like humans. That doesn't make me antihuman; there are plenty of humans I'm very fond of. But generally speaking, if I simultaneously meet a new human and a new dog, I'm going to like the dog more. I'm certainly going to trust the dog more.

He rolls his eyes when I mention the dog connection. "What is it with you and dogs?" "Dogs are like humans, only better in every respect," I say.

So dogs kept coming home with us, one after another after another. We had crossed over into full-blown dog lunacy and burned the bridge behind us.

My guess is that over the years we've had 300 dogs in our house as pets.

In Mary's view, Trumbull should have given Lincoln his votes, not the other way around. Lincoln was relieved that at least the senatorship had gone to the like-minded Trumbull, whom he congratulated and continued to befriend.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

You're a good lot, you Deadheads. I'm proud to be one of you.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit) For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.

It was for my dear, dear friend Poirot. I was saying goodbye to him as well, and I felt it with all my heart.

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Your friendgirl*?

lifetime left. Jack was going to have to help him. But he had

you can't build loyalty, a person has to already have it.

If you hang with dogs, then of course you must get treated like dogs.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

We have the same strange idea in work as we do in love: that we will engender love, loyalty, and admiration in others by exhibiting a great sense of power and competency. We are surprised to find that we garner fear and respect but forgo the other, more intimate magic. Real, undying loyalty in work can never be legislated or coerced; it is based on a courageous vulnerability that invites others by our example to a frontier conversation whose outcome is yet in doubt.

I'll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.

Political loyalties can die hard, and there were probably those who pined after Absalom and told their children stories of the greatness that briefly existed, in the manner of old communists saddened by the demise of the world in which they were young.

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?