Best 92 quotes in «fidelity quotes» category

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

Faithful found among the faithless.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Fidelity is for phonographs

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

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

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

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

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

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.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

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

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

What really matters is what you believe.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, ‘unless you shame me or disappoint me?’ What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that?

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it must be assumed to have practical justification - though the very longevity that proves its practicality may obscure it. That seems to be what happened with the idea of fidelity... Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence. (pg.115-116, "The Body and the Earth")

Bertha knelt in front of me and took both my hands in hers and said, “Your mama loves you very much, Charlie. But sometimes, she just loses her way.” Loses her way? I’d be happy to draw her a map to show her the way back to being my mama again.

Don’t ever let your deeds oppose the same thing you seek to promote! That is a big fallacy!

Don't get married unless you're ready to be faithful.