Fidelity Quotes - Page 10

• I am a pathetic and gushing Nick Hornby fan, and I wanted to be in High Fidelity, and I wanted to be in About A Boy, and those two directors - one who's a dear friend, and one who has never cast me in anything, despite my pleading... So there was another Nick Hornby script going around being cast by a friend of mine, and she said, "There's a very small role in it, but you'd be right for it." I was like "I don't care how small, I'm going to be in this Nick Hornby film."

  Olivia Williams

  Boys, Care, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Small Changes, People

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• I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Being True, One Woman

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Facts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Ocean, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

  Bill Gross

  Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Peter

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• We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Inspiration

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• All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

  John Cusack

  Stories, Firsts, Versions

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• Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

  Ovid

  Names, Empty, Losing Friendship

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• What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Couple, Real

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• Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  Georges Bernanos

  Dream, Loneliness, Simple

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• I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Opportunity, Half

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1985.

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led to the birth of our great nation. It is an oath of our fidelity to our country, and I am disappointed that the [9th Circuit] Court chose to rule against this American treasure.

  Dennis Hastert

  Country, Father, Rights

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• A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

  Kevin Maney

  Cds, Enough, These Days

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity - a fantastic experience - to thrive. Magazines will survive the Internet age, but only the ones that give people an experience they just can't get anywhere else. A magazine will have to be truly loved to make it.

  Kevin Maney

  Running, Play, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is to get, which often means a low price and ubiquitousness. A super-fidelity product or service would lose its luster and quality if it's pushed too hard toward convenience. A super-convenient product or service would start to get expensive and exclusive if it moved toward higher fidelity, which would naturally undermine its convenience.

  Kevin Maney

  Mean, Quality, Auras

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that.

  Kevin Maney

  Discipline, Investment, Great Company

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.

  Kevin Maney

  Opportunity, America, Choices

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you're halfway in between on both measures, you're not going to make people feel very excited about you.

  Kevin Maney

  People, Way, Want

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.

  David E. Cooper

  Commitment, People, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."

  John Flansburgh

  Fun, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

  I. A. R. Wylie

  Faithful, Virtue

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• I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Integrity, Mean, Technology

  Source: bigthink.com

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