Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. B. Priestley

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Gertrude Jekyll

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

But they can play. We respect them very much. You have to.

Neil Diamond

My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

John W. Gardner

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John Robinson

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

John Philip Sousa

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

Ravi Shankar

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Tom Hiddleston

This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority.

Rajneesh

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Theodore C. Sorensen

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Margaret Mead

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Eric Hoffer

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

You can see the respect between them before and after the games.

Henry David Thoreau

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

Henry David Thoreau

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Lech Walesa

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

Laini Taylor

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

John Updike

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

John Shelby Spong

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Laurence Sterne

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Frederick Sanger

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Frederick Soddy

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Luigi Pirandello

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Luigi Pirandello

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.

Nicolas Malebranche

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

Mike McCready

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.