Quotes About Loyalty

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

And then—the kicker—they were cousins. Casey suspected she would forever feel protective of Meg, and that wasn't a bad thing.

opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

That was the way of relationships. If no one fought for them, they ended.

she'd run away, she'd always given him everything

What I can promise is this -- I'll never lie to you, betray you, or walk away from you.

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

I wanted to take his leash off and let him run free, but I was scared to. What if he decided he'd had enough of me and ran off to be a stray again?

Thankful. I felt thankful that I had my very own dog who would love me no matter what.

I was gonna steal me a dog.

Sometimes I think he's the kind of friend that grownups call a 'fair-weather friend.' That means when everything's going smoothly, he's the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

She was a great cultivator of friends, a person who brought others together. Once you were in her life, she never let you drift out of it completely. (Hidden Beneath)

I have a lot to contribute and the company needs to compensate me appropriately or I'll go elsewhere,

Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.

Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal's obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command.

the symbolism of the Garter, a circlet to bind the Knight-Companions mutually, and all of them jointly to the King as head of the Order.

Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure.

Medieval political structure was ideally a contract exchanging service and loyalty in return for protection, justice, and order.

Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.