Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alicia Silverstone

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

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.

Donald Trump

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

Dalai Lama

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

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.

Darius Rucker

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

Darrell Royal

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Danica McKellar

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

Claudia Black

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

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.

David Gemmell

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

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.

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

He's got these big feet, and they don't respect him. He surprises people.

Dustin Johnson

With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.

He was pretty nice. He was always respectful of everyone.

I think that Oakley in some respects does all its stuff by itself,

Corey Dillon

He was very respectful and said all the right things.

He won't do that. He respects the game. He wouldn't do that.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

He went out of respect for his friend,

David Carr

He doesn't treat me differently, ... I think that's something that I always wanted is someone that would treat me like the other guys. You get more respect from your teammates that way.