Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

We have to respect what she has to say.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Luis Figo

We'll give them the respect we give all our adversaries, but we are also sure of our own capabilities.

Jayne Meadows

I respect his talents, even as he does mine.

Jason Smith

I respect Framingham. I'm not so sure they do.

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Annie Lennox

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Clint Eastwood

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

Albert Schweitzer

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Doug Stanhope

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

Donnie Wahlberg

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Dan Glickman

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

Clint Eastwood

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

Donald Trump

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

David Hasselhoff

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Confucius

If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in his word his fellow man will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. if he is generous he will be good enough to be put in a position over his fellow men.

Dick Gregory

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Anna Quindlen

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Angela Carter

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Andy Rooney

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Andre Gide

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Andre Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Anatole France

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

Christopher Wren

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.