Fidelity Quotes - Page 5

• Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

  Max Frisch

  Marriage, Hands, Defeat

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
  Write not again, but come, sweet mate

  Ovid

  Sweet, Writing, Lovers

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• He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

  John Milton

  Giving, Done, Covenant

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.167

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• I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

  Frederic Raphael

  Sex, Feels, If I Could

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• I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

  Pierre Corneille

  Marriage, Patriotism, Alas

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• I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

  Jean Racine

  Infidelity, Done, Unfaithful

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• I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.

  Nick Offerman

  Character, Illinois, Watches

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Faithful, Covenant

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• Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

  Claude Cahun

  Lying, Too Much, Narcissism

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• Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Ambition, Men

  1905 'Books'.

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• What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?

  Peter Rollins

  Christian, Kissing, What If

  Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.96, Paraclete Press

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• Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

  Frederic Raphael

  Sarcastic, Men, Ideas

  'Darling' (1965) ch. 18

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• By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

  Tod Papageorge

  Remembrance, Fiction, Surprise

  "Winogrand's Theater Of Quick Takes" by Tod Papageorge, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 1977.

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• Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Mother, Children

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• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

  Marguerite Duras

  Giving Up, Love You, Forever

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• One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

  Simone Elkeles

  Loyalty, Heart, Who I Am

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Joy, Technique, Needs

  Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

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• The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not simply give it to the married people of the church, but to the whole church, just as marriage is designed not only for the benefit of the married couple. It is designed to tell a story to the entire church, a story about God’s own love and fidelity to us

  Lauren F. Winner

  Couple, People, Giving

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• The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!

  Benjamin F. Grady

  Honesty, Fighting, Men

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• William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.

  Grover Cleveland

  Example, Mckinley, Priceless

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• That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Heart, Loss

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Dover Publications

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• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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