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Quotes About Loyalty

there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
~ Roald Dahl
You're cheating people who trust you.
~ Roald Dahl
What's your name?' 'Pilot Officer Dahl, sir.' 'Very well, Dahl,' he said, weighing the package up and down in one hand. 'This is on no account to fall into enemy hands. Guard it with your life. Do I make myself clear?' 'Yes, sir,' I said, feeling important.
~ Roald Dahl
Whereupon the three men all shook hands with one another and swore a solemn oath that they would not go back to their farms until the fox was caught.
~ Roald Dahl
All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends When it's full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
~ Roald Dahl
Pero no te preocupes. Cena tranquilo. Charlie te esperará cuanto tiempo sea necesario y Wonka no abrirá la fábrica hasta que tú regreses. No, no te preocupes. No van a entrar sin ti.
~ Roald Dahl
I'm on your side
~ Rob Bell
Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell.
~ Rob Thomas
This is why you shouldn't hire your friends. It's all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.
~ Rob Thomas
Her encouragement and reassurance were constant and extravagant. Once, not seeing her at a public function, he demanded, with something of his old snarl, "Where's Lady Bird?" and she replied, "Right behind you, darling. Where I've always been." At a conference at which he became agitated, she slipped him a note. "Don't let anybody upset you. You'll do the right thing. You're a good man.
~ Robert A. Caro
Miller just hated Roosevelt," Jones says, "and Lyndon was in tune with Miller. Hell, sometimes he was louder against Roosevelt than Miller was.
~ Robert A. Caro
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I hate to tell you this, but you are just stupid and eager and sincere enough to make the kind of officer that men love to follow into some silly predicament.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Nevertheless, once you pick up a stray cat and feed it, you cannot abandon it. Self-love forbids it. The cat's welfare becomes essential to your own peace of mind—even when it's a bloody nuisance not to break faith with the cat.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal had long ago even foresworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible that a pet would outlive him, be orphaned.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The duty of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.
~ Robert A. Heinlein