Best 92 quotes in «fidelity quotes» category

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.

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.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

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

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

Faithful found among the faithless.

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

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

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

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 is for phonographs

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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.

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.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

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

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

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.'

What really matters is what you believe.

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

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.