Young men of my type are prone to be impatient of details…

I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.”

— Alice Hoffman

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors…

— Amin Maalouf

“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves…

— Carl Sagan

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a…

— George Orwell

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then…

— Aldrich Ames

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

— Carl Sagan

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

— Aldo Leopold

“Your loyalties are indecisive at best. You know what that makes you, big boy?’ ‘Definitely a Gemini.”

— Nathan M. Farrugia

Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it and those you trust the…

— Kevin McCarty

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment…

— Anonymous

“She’s a bargirl. You don’t know where her loyalties lie. That one was unconvincing. No one had directed her against me—I was the one…

— Barry Eisler

“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr