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Letter "F" » fidelities
«Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
fidelities, infidelities, infidelity, signal, undermined, undermines, undermining
«A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.»
Author: Robert Benchley
| About:
Dogs
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, perseverance, three times, turn around
«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.»
Author: Thomas Troward
| Keywords:
consequences, fidelities, fidelity, impresses, objective, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, subjective, utmost
«True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
attained, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, self-gratification, worthy
«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquired, ancestor, brilliant, distant, exalted, fidelities, fidelity, in a moment, merge, merging, proud of, ridiculously
«FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
betrayed, fidelities, fidelity, peculiar
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
| Keywords:
brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
attained, constitutes, constituting, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, persons, self-gratification, worthy
«Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Mind
| Keywords:
endowment, endowments, faithfulness, fidelities, fidelity, human mind, venerable
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
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