Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

Erykah Badu

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Florence King

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Helen Keller

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Jim Calhoun

Any team that's won 20 games, we're going to have respect for.

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jill Soloway

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Spanish authorities need to respect the Commission's competence.

Laura Harper

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

This is a momentum-builder, and we are getting our respect back.

You respect the program, you respect their accomplishments.

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us.

Evo Morales

We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

George Herbert

He that respects not is not respected.

C. Everett Koop

The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.

Joseph Joubert

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Molly Ivins

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Ken Salazar

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Imelda Marcos

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Immanuel Kant

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

H. L. Mencken

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

H. L. Mencken

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Jessica Simpson

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Jerry Colangelo

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.