Respect Quotes - Page 26

• If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

  Jeremy London

  Stupid, Done, Towns

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• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Real, Character, Play

  "Kyra Sedgwick Talks The Woodsman". movieweb.com. December 23, 2004.

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• Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Years, Enjoy Life, Should

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.206

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• The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

  Roscoe Pound

  Law, Stills, Stable

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• ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Organization, Community

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• The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

  Mark Twain

  Office, Pirate, Flags

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Cherish, Highest

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• Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

  Barry Sheene

  Deserve

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• Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Loneliness, Independence

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• Arabs respect only the language of force.

  Moshe Sharett

  Language, Force

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• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

  Mary J. Blige

  Giving, Demand, Firsts

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• We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

  Zinedine Zidane

  People

  "ZZ top". Interview With Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Educational, Ethical Principles, Joy

  Pierre de Coubertin, Norbert Müller (2000). “Olympism: Selected Writings”, Lausanne, Switzerland : International Olympic Committee

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• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Oneness, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.760, GENERAL PRESS

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• So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

  Eriq La Salle

  Hollywood Films, Important, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Speak

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.57, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Awe and respect are two different things.

  Oliver Reed

  Fear, Two, Different

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• I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

  Joan Collins

  Actors, Opera, Soap

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

  Moliere

  Preference, Esteem, Cease

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Character, Men

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3759, GENERAL PRESS

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• The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Up To You, Noise, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Learning, Knowledge

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Tennis, Usage

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• There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

  Chief Dan George

  People, Purpose, Common

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• The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Depth, Mysterious

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