Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Jim Carrey

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

Jeannette Rankin

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Chris Ware

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Chris Lowe

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frank Sinatra

Never yawn in front of a lady.

Felix Adler

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Harper Lee

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

Hosea Ballou

Self-respect is the best of all.

(Game-planning) is never about one player. But you have to respect someone that's going to put up a double-double.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Fred Astaire

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

Erich Fromm

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

Spanish authorities need to respect the Commission's competence.

Laura Harper

Definitely, I don't think the respect is there for our team.

Mark Ryan

I understand and respect his position, and I respectfully disagree,

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

That's great, isn't it? I told them all that it's time to step up and show (the league) another side of you. I don't think they respect you.

We've got a lot of respect for Portland. We see them as a pretty solid lacrosse team.

We want to do it in a respectful manner.

I seen it as him being my friend, showing respect for me so I can know what's going on.

We try to respect his time. He runs more than 100 companies.

Hank Haney

I'm not saying I teach Tiger Woods. We're old friends. He respects my views on the game, just as he respects other people's views.

Shia LaBeouf

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

John Catsimatidis

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

Steve Smith, he's the known. He makes them go. He's real versatile. He can rebound, and he can play on the perimeter and the post. I give him credit. You have to respect his game.

Nothing that I did post-sentencing had anything to do with being disrespectful to you because I have the utmost respect for you, sir,

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

I'm sure he will. He had a lot of respect in St. Louis.