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Quotes About Loyalty

Lay on, MacDuff Lay on with the soup, and the Haggis and stuff; For though 'tis said you are our foe What side my bread's buttered on you bet I know!
~ S.M. Stirling
I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway. Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery? It was hard not to smile at that. An excellent point. I think so.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~ Saint Jerome
Loyalty is a tight weave, a heathery tweed of which love is only one fiber.
~ Sally Koslow
Sam's father would have warned him that a man who lifts his hand to harm a friend harms himself the deepest.
~ Sally Malcolm
En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traición: es el reconocimiento de la derrota.
~ Salman Rushdie
Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.
~ Salman Rushdie
Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their own sex by higher standards, they expect more from their own sex--loyalty, understanding, trustworthiness, love....
~ Salman Rushdie
The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning.
~ Salman Rushdie
Prince Bolo, who didn't like his Pages to say, 'I told you so,' snapped back: 'What's this, Blabbermouth? Are you a girl?' You /noticed/, sire,' said Blabbermouth. 'No point /pretending/ any /more/.' 'You tricked us,' said Bolo, blushing. 'You tricked /me/.' Blabbermouth was outraged by Bolo's ingratitude. 'Tricking you isn't exactly /difficult/, excuse /me/,' she cried. '/Jugglers/ can do it, so why not /girls/?
~ Salman Rushdie
The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don't you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one of us sits on us all and bends our backs. See what you're doing to your husband's people, how you repay the ones who took you in when you came penniless and a fugitive from that godless country over there.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you die and go to Hell the Braves fan said, you have to change places in Atlanta.
~ Salman Rushdie
can honor be expected of a man who is preparing to storm the city of his birth?
~ Salman Rushdie
To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden
~ Sam Harris
we do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws.
~ Sam Harris
One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths.
~ Sam Harris
Pero cuando se nos pide una opinión, no hacemos ningún favor a nuestros amigos fingiendo no apreciar defectos en su trabajo, en especial cuando quienes no son sus amigos están obligados a reparar en esos mismos defectos.
~ Sam Harris
Aceptar mantener un secreto es asumir una carga.
~ Sam Harris
The fascist says, It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ and if you do, wonderful! And if you don't, then you're an enemy.
~ Sam Harris
I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.
~ Steve Yzerman
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
~ Bar Refaeli
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
~ Simone Elkeles, Wild Cards
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
~ William Hazlitt
False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
~ John Kessel