Quotes About Loyalty

And while generally loyal to the United States, ibn Saud displayed no reservations about negotiating with Britain and France in order to extract higher contract fees from the Americans. Indeed, when asked by American negotiators why he favored the United States over the Europeans, ibn Saud candidly replied, "You are very far away!

Princess Mary, William's wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, "a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!

But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt! Daphne said. Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.

If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?

I don't care what is written, Meyer Landsman says. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.

Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

Always true to the code," she said.

male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

You're a sleazy defense lawyer with two ex-wifes and an eight-year-old daughter and we all love you.

For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back.

They need you until they don't need you.

I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing. Harry, you sure you-- You think I have a choice?

When you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

You know what they call a guy who switches sides in homicide? They call him a Jane Fonda, as in hanging with the North Vietnamese. You get it? It's crossing to the dark side.

Okay, Harry. We can work cases. But we bend the rules. We don't break them.

Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He'd had only one true family, a gang.

Those five words…"the good of the department." They never added up to anything but high jingo.

Michael Connelly

That this person would continue to support the president after the media had documented his many, many untruths was a factor as well. It was blind loyalty to a cause, and an indicator that truthfulness was not an important part of her framework.