Fidelity Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

  George Pell

  People, Church, Vitality

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Marriage, Patriotism, Alas

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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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• And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

  Alan Watts

  Love Is, Ideas, Two

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• Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Self, Justice

  Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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• I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Book, Leave Me Alone

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Men, Choices

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

  W. H. Auden

  Ties, Important, Homosexuality

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• The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Columbia University Press

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• I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Dance, Country

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• The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

  Dean Rusk

  Peace, United States, World

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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.

  Oliver Sacks

  Technology, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Decision, Tools

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• To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Strong, Honesty, Integrity

  William Ellery Channing (1925). “The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing”

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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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• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  Victor Papanek

  Country, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.

  Jacques Derrida

  Memories, Mixtures, Break

  Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo (1997). “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida”, p.6, Fordham Univ Press

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• In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

  Alain Badiou

  Victory, Encounters, Defeated

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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