Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Singer

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Prince

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.

Nathaniel Branden

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect-not realizing that they have signaled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

Richard Bach

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Cochrane

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas E. Mann

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

Robert Towne

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Sanford I. Weill

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Rebecca Hall

We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

Robert Casey

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Richard Rohr

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Richard Dawkins

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Tracy Chapman

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

Robert Green Ingersoll

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Samuel Johnson

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Sachin Tendulkar

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

Rodney Dangerfield

It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.