Quotes About Loyalty

Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.

I was also dismayed that some people who had known or worked with me—like Reinhart, Posen, and Goodfriend—seemed disinclined to give us the benefit of the doubt.

I was delighted. I both counted him as a friend and saw him as a dedicated and highly qualified public servant.

He promised to be as supportive as possible.

The senator believed I was doing a good job but, for political reasons, had to vote against me.

Greg—whom I had known since graduate school—called and asked if I had any interest in succeeding him.

Conservatives get trapped in this gambit routinely, because they figure that the enemy of their enemy is their friend: if the left is attacking someone, he must be worth defending. But that's not true. I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don't feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

At the ninth hour, under a pitch-black sky, the women stood as close to the cross of Jesus as the soldiers would allow. Jesus' mother had arrived, and when Jesus saw her with the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, "Woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." Thus Jesus honored and provided for his mother with nearly his last breath. From that time on, Lazarus took her into his home.

Why have you taken my heart from me? I am not justice nor loyalty. I am the shape of the weathercock, That all winds come to and all winds mock. You are the image of the sea-carved stone, The silent thing that can suffer alone, The little women are easier, The easy women make lighter love, I will not take your face to war, I will not carry your cast-off glove.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Yo tenía esa edad en la que el menor gesto de bondad parece una prueba de amistad eterna.

There's always somebody," she said simply.

Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron

Maggie, la criada,

This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in the pope's chapel. If it had been discovered that Buonarroti had denied the Church and veered into Valdesian Protestantism, he would not only have lost his career, but also his freedom—and possibly his life.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. Franklin

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.