799 quotes
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby
Public Servant · American · 1869 – 1950
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn
Novelist · English · 1830 – 1898
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett
Explorer · American · 1786 – 1836
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
John Linder
Politician · American · b. 1942
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
Author · Japanese · 1850 – 1904
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
King Hussein I
Statesman · Jordanian · 1935 – 1999
Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mohandas Gandhi
Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
Wietse Venema
Scientist · Dutch
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
John M. Ford
Writer · American · 1957 – 2006
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
Historian · American · 1800 – 1891
Arabs respect only the language of force.
Moshe Sharett
Statesman · Israeli · 1894 – 1965
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
Writer · American · 1884 – 1949
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
Bill O'Reilly
Journalist · American · b. 1949
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
Tina Brown
Editor · American · b. 1953
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain de Botton
Writer · English · b. 1969
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Joseph Butler
Clergyman · English · 1692 – 1752
I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
Ken Mehlman
Politician · American · b. 1966
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
Author · American · b. 1934
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
Orrin Hatch
Politician · b. 1934
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
Walter Annenberg
Businessman · American · 1908 – 2002
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
Leo Burnett
Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
Activist · American · 1935 – 1998
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker
Theologian · American · 1810 – 1860
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
Katie Couric
Journalist · American · b. 1957
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
Mahmoud Abbas
Statesman · Palestinian · b. 1935
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author · American · 1896 – 1940
I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
Lee Scott
Businessman · American
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
Brian Ferneyhough
Composer · British · b. 1943
There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
Garth Ennis
Writer · Irish · b. 1970
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
John Corigliano
Composer · American · b. 1938
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Dennis Prager
Journalist · American · b. 1948
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
John Nelson Darby
Clergyman · English · 1800 – 1882
As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
Dave Reichert
Politician · American · b. 1950
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot
Editor · French · 1713 – 1784
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
Author · American · 1944 – 2002
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
Ed Miliband
Politician · British · b. 1969
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Juan Goytisolo
Poet · Spanish
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Public Servant · b. 1934
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
Tucker Carlson
Journalist · American · b. 1969
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
Mikhail Saakashvili
Statesman · Georgian · b. 1967
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo
Statesman · b. 1935
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
John Hench
Artist · American · 1908 – 2004
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Andrew Cuomo
Politician · American · b. 1957
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Everett Dirksen
Politician · American · 1896 – 1969
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach
Novelist · American · b. 1936