Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Edward Gibbon

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Hillary Clinton

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Julia Ormond

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Mary Robinson

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

Pranab Mukherjee

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

David Ben-Gurion

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

Mahathir Mohamad

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

John Bolton

There's no such thing as the United Nations,

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Kojo Annan

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.