Quotes About Loyalty

Quando tu fizer meu retrato… Tu ainda vai fazer? — Vou, Boa-Vida… (Vontade de dizer palavras carinhosas como a um irmão.) — Não me faz cheio de bexiga, não…

No eran valientes porque si triunfaban se transformarían en el germen del ejército emancipador de América, ni porque estaban dispuestos a darlo todo por la patria nueva. Eran valientes, en ese debut sangriento, porque temían más a su jefe que a Dios, y porque al no poder retroceder hasta el más cobarde es un hombre audaz.

Digo que esta noticia me parece interesante, porque es prueba de que en un país en donde no existe lo que pudiera llamarse oposición, hay en cambio partidarios de lo que sea, siempre y cuando se refiera al pasado.

Als er den letzten Schluck getrunken hatte, ging er in sein Kabinett zurück und ließ sich von dem Diener die Schildkröte nachtragen, die sich partout nicht bewegen wollte

El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca

sólo los cobardes son valientes con sus mujeres.

No hay caso: hay gorilas por todos lados. Hasta en una pizzería de mierda. Pero entendamos: el Gordo es el patrón. Y en este país apenas cualquier pobre tipo llega a ser patrón se convierte en traidor, en buchón, abomina de su clase, quiere trepar, ser un señor, dar lástima en los salones de clase alta. Pero estar ahí.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

Because you can be happy elsewhere, because you are not made for suffering, because you would hate your country if some day you were to find yourself outcast for her sake, and to hate one's own country is the greatest of misfortunes.

I pay for every friend I make with a hundred enemies!

Det er riktig at bestefaren din måtte forlate Spania, hadde greven av Barcelona sagt. - Men han forble konge til han døde. I en tone som gjorde inntrykk på gutten hadde han lagt til: - For, ser du, Juanito, en konge bør aldri abdisere. Det har han ingen rett til.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

In critical moments, to declare oneself neutral is to be exposed to the wrath of both the contending parties.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

Let Caesar have the world, if Marcia's mine.

Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

Cato Would Lucius have me live to swell the number Of Caesar's slaves, or by a base submission 30 Give up the cause of Rome, and own a tyrant?

Christ keeps not his subjects in by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through his grace, freely devoted to his service; they serve out of choice, not as slaves, but as the son or spouse, from a spring of love and a loyal mind. In a word, the laws of Christ are the convert's love, delight, and continual study.

And truly he did well to trust in God, for though the felons mocked him when he said he had loved loyally, yet I call you to witness, my lords who read this, and who know of the philtre drunk upon the high seas, and who, understand whether his love were disloyalty indeed. For men see this and that outward thing, but God alone the heart, and in the heart alone is crime and the sole final judge is God.

Nu de Brangien cea credincioas?, ci de ei însu?i au a se teme iubi?ii. Îns? cum s? stea de veghe inimile lor bete de dragoste? Iubirea îi îmbolde?te, a?a cum setea îl repede pe cerb c?tre râu, la ananghie, ori tot a?a precum, dup? o lung? înfometare, ?oimul slobozit se las? pe prad?. Vai! dragostea nu se poate t?nui.

Hmm. I'm tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.