Quotes About Loyalty

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative.

Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.

There may be no better way to clear the diary of engagements than to wonder who among our acquaintances would make the trip to the hospital bed.

their loyalty to each other deepened by their ever-increasing disloyalty towards everyone else.

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

It is of course the height of absurdity to blame them. But this is to misunderstand the rules under which love operates. It is because we cannot scream at the forces who are really responsible that we get angry with those we are sure will best tolerate us for blaming them. We take it out on the very nicest, most sympathetic, most loyal people in the vicinity, the ones least likely to have harmed us, but the ones most likely to stick around while we pitilessly rant at them.

Vai entender que o amor só dura quando não somos fiéis às suas sedutoras ambições iniciais e que, para ter um relacionamento duradouro, precisará abrir mão dos sentimentos que desde o início o levaram a amar. Precisará aprender que o amor é mais habilidade do que entusiasmo.

The libertine position denies any inherent or logical link between loving someone and needing to be unfailingly sexually loyal to them.

she knows, better than most, that there is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.

quienes se burlan de la amistad [...] bien pueden ser los mejores amigos del mundo», quizá porque quienes lo hacen abordan ese vínculo con expectativas más realistas que el resto.

It is because we cannot scream at the forces who are really responsible that we get angry with those we are sure will best tolerate us for blaming them. We take it out on the very nicest, most sympathetic, most loyal people in the vicinity, the ones least likely to have harmed us, but the ones most likely to stick around while we pitilessly rant at them.

that they will be patient and show compassion, that they will trust and forgive, and that they will remain best friends and loyal companions until death.

The king is up. You attend on the king, not on the clock. When the king is awake, you are awake.

People disappointed; animals never did.

If that is your God, Father Kamiano, your Jehovah, who would condemn a kind and tender man to hell for the sin of not believing in him—then I shall follow my Keo to hell, as I followed him to this one, and together we spit on your God and his heaven!

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks, circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. "Because it's the right thing to do." Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. "Buddy, if we're gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other." The trooper stared at him for a long moment. "I need a pilot.

With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.

You can still have children. We'll buy out your contract. You'll get everything you deserve. We owe you.' She wavered. 'You're not going to take it back?

You're all crazy,' he muttered. 'You know that.' 'Man,' Vasquez told him softly, 'why else would anyone join the Colonial Marines?

She looked up. "Never underestimate a droid, Lieutenant.

I'm not a hero. I'm not Resistance. I'm a stormtrooper.

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.