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Quotes About Loyalty

never give testimony against another physician.
~ Joseph Heller
The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .
~ Joseph Heller
All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
~ Joseph Heller
There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either.
~ Joseph Heller
It was one thing to maintain liaison with the Lord, and they were all in favor of that; it was something else, though, to have Him hanging around twenty-four hours a day.
~ Joseph Heller
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
~ Joseph Heller
Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn't want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you? My sister is an enlisted man, sir, the chaplain replied.
~ Joseph Heller
Clevinger was guilty, of course, or he would not have been accused, and since the only way to prove it was to find him guilty, it was their patriotic duty to do so.
~ Joseph Heller
The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
~ Joseph Heller
Ameikh ami, ve'Elo-hai-ikh Elo-hai—Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
~ Joseph Telushkin
I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?
~ Josephine Hart
Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong le ma?
~ Joss Whedon
My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.
~ Joss Whedon
Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.
~ Joss Whedon
There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I'd like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It struck her to the heart, left her weak, disoriented, that, to Michael Mulvaney, after all, his family wasn't quite enough.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Yet: what could be proven against Zachary Lundt, with no witness except Marianne? Her words against his? Zachary's friends would rally around him, she knew. She was not bitter, but she knew. It was clear to her, logical as a chess game in which you see your opponent's devastating moves to come, but are helpless to prevent them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For it had always seemed evident to him, Jesus adored his faithless Judas above the other disciples.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
~ Joyce Maynard
Friends. There's a loaded word for you. I know some people, when speaking of a particular relationship, may say "we're just friends," as if this were some lesser form of connection to that of lovers or so-called soul mates. But to me, there may be no bond that matters more, in the end, than friendship. True and enduring friendship. Alice
~ Joyce Maynard
Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.
~ Joyce Meyer
When people want to hear yes, and you tell them no, they never like it. But those who are truly your friends will give you the freedom to make your own decisions. They
~ Joyce Meyer