Quotes About Loyalty

Her friendship with Amma is based on historic loyalty and comfortable familiarity rather than shared interests and perspectives

Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?

This is one of the pleasures of a lifelong friendship: so many of your memories are shared.

también era leal, claro, pero como un capitán ante el general. Troy, como un soldado.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can't slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.

What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?

The key is not to make the sale. The key is to cultivate the customer." At The Home Depot, cultivating the customer is much more important than creating a bottom line. We teach our associates that if you can save a customer money, do it. We're not looking to fleece the customer. If I can save them $100, why not do it? That reflects one of our values: caring for the customer. Care for them today and they'll be back tomorrow.

Pat never let a customer out of the store empty-handed, period. If there was something they needed that we didn't have, such as a quart size, he would give them the gallon size for the quart price. Pat believed you didn't let a customer leave The Home Depot without satisfying them in some way.

I don't trust him, you see we're friends.

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Givola: Why you doing this, boss? Just for the swells at the Trust? Ui: On the contrary. This is for the little guy. Why do you think that Trust man, Clark, Always looks so impressive? Not for his own kind, that's for sure. His bank account takes care of them ­ Just like I rely on my brave boys to make sure I get respect. Clark puffs himself up to impress the little man. And so will I.

They enjoyed the passive acquiescence—and at times the direct support—of the police, the army, and the church.

In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest" 3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty

I wondered if I'd ever be so lucky to have a girlfriend I'd grow old with, a girlfriend who knew my secrets, my fears, my hopes-- and loved me anyway.

It occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Sapphire knew full well what Miz Obee was doing, but she always looked at her friend with tenderness in her eyes and pretended not to notice. As I watched this silent exchange between Sapphire and Miz Obee, it occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

it occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Sapphire knew full well what Miz Obee was doing, but she always looked at her friend with tenderness in her eyes and pretended not to notice. As I watched this silent exchange between Sapphire and Miz Obee, it occurred to me that that's what friends should do cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.