Quotes About Loyalty

What do dogs think when they see someone cry? Bred to be comforters, they comfort us. But how puzzling human unhappiness must be to them. We who can fill our dishes any time and with as much food as we like, who can go outside whenever we wish, and run free - we who have no master constantly needling to be pleased, or obeyed.

I think of the story of Hachik? the Akita, who used to go to Tokyo's Shibuya Station to meet the train that brought his master home from work every day—until one day the man died suddenly and Hachik? waited in vain. But the next day, and every day after that, for nearly ten years, the dog appeared at the station to meet the train at the usual hour.

Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me.

There was a code at Attica. But not Maryville. The women couldn't trust one another. No loyalty. Loyalty was king at Attica. There was a sense of honor that just did not exist among females. ("They ten times more likely to snitch.") And in their own way men, or at least the majority, he said, were more willing to abide by the rules.

Dogs are the best mourners in the world, as everyone knows. Joy Williams.)

If I bring him home though, I swear he'll spend the rest of his life waiting by the door. And he deserves better than that, don't you think?' Yes, I think, my heart breaking. You can't explain death. And love deserves better than that.

It would be unmanly to complain against the faith I had chosen.

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

A particular kind of patriotism, promises of adventure, finances. This is how boys end up soldiers.

as long as there were still cedar trees and dogs, I reckoned I had a reason to keep going.

He took the messages to a local brewer, who wrapped them in a leather packet, which was then hidden inside a hollow bung used to seal a barrel of beer. The brewer would deliver the barrel to Chartley Hall, whereupon one of Mary's servants would open the bung and take the contents to the Queen of Scots. The process worked equally well for getting messages out of Chartley Hall.

Si un estudiante no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El estudiante que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Por otra parte, yo era extremista: quería todo o nada. Si amaba sería para toda la vida y me daría entera con mi cuerpo, mi corazón, mi cabeza y mi pasado. Me negaba a picotear emociones, voluptuosidades ajenas a esa idea. A decir verdad no tuve oportunidad de probar la solidez de esos principios, pues ningún seductor trató de conmoverlos.

Arapski geograf El Bekri, govore?i o Slovenima, kaže: Ako se oženi i vidi da je njegova žena nevina, on joj kaže: Da si nešto vredela, muškarci bi te voleli i našao bi se jedan koji bi ti oduzeo nevinost. Zatim je otera i odri?e je se.

Of these three sorts of lies – lying to the party, lying to the public, lying to oneself – the first is by far the least evil. Yet if belonging to a party compels one to lie all the time, in every instance, then the very existence of political parties is absolutely and unconditionally an evil.

A amizade não se procura, não se imagina, não se deseja; exercita-se (é uma virtude)

When a country has political parties, sooner or later it becomes impossible to intervene effectively in public affairs without joining a party and playing the game.

Christ toujours présent entre deux vrais amis. Réciproquement la parole « Si deux ou trois.... » est la promesse de l'amitié humaine à ses amis.

Faithful service is often unnoticed by men but it never remains unnoticed by God.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to stop and speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-