Allegiances Quotes

#1. I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. How exactly does a steam-powered gun turret differentiate between friend and foe? I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#3. 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

Tatiana Maslany

#4. We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.

Jayne Castel

#5. For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

Amin Maalouf

#6. Addressing the concept of man made additions to the faith - These additions-
standards, practices, and allegiances supposedly created for our spiritual benefit-
have had the opposite effect.

Ed Galisewski

#7. The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of humanity. They are unhinged sociopaths, far removed from what the Occupy Movement called the '99 percent.'

Henry Giroux

#8. Forget uniforms or nominal allegiances - if it wears a weapon and scars, it's no safer than the next starving wild dog. Feed and water with care, walk like you're carrying dragon eggs, and never, never get between rival packs.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

George Carlin

#11. Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

Amin Maalouf

#12. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Joyce Cary

#13. We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Angeles Arrien

#14. I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.

Michael Talbot

#15. Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. "The world is my country," he said, "science my religion.

Carl Sagan

#16. People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

Josephine Humphreys

#17. He is not only a distraction I can't afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

Victoria Aveyard

#18. Healing unhealthy relationships with created things is not a management issue. It's a heart issue, a question of just where our highest allegiances lie.

Ellen Vaughn

#19. God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

Edward T. Welch

#20. Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

C.D. Wright

#21. Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#22. Within this quadrilateral of forces, Jefferson was to emerge as the republican equivalent of a philosopher king, who was coldly willing to sacrifice all principles and all allegiances to the one great aim of making America permanent.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Dinaw Mengestu

#24. In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

Richard Kadrey

#25. All cultural explorers ... start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

#26. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended
there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.

Aldous Huxley

#27. Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Bill Goldberg

#28. We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves.

Steve Almond

#29. Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Bryant McGill

#30. Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#31. Russia will make new allegiances. Siberia, unfreezing, will become a land grab.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#32. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]

Edward T. Welch