Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Donna Leon

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Ann Patchett

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

Richard E. Grant

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anne Rice

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

Davy Jones

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Dennis Rodman

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Clement Attlee

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,