Best 92 quotes in «fidelity quotes» category

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

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.

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

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

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

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

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

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

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.

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.

Faithful found among the faithless.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

I believe in marriage and 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.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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

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.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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.

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

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

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

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.

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

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

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

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

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.'

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")