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Quotes About Respect

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
~ Ken Starr
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
~ Brigham Young
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!
~ Izey Victoria Odiase
The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.
~ Abhijit Naskar
If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?
~ Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback
His service to the family was honoured by a certain artificial equality of status.
~ Mervyn Peake
One private from the Parachute Regiment had passed Nobby every morning on his way from the married quarters. 'Morning, sir!' he would say. One day Nobby stopped him. 'No need to keep calling me "sir" when we see each other every day,' he told him. 'My name's Nobby.' The following day the soldier passed the RSM as usual. 'Morning, Nobby,' he said. 'You're under arrest for insubordination!' said Mr Arnold.
~ Michael Asher
Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.
~ Michael Buckley
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
~ Michael Chabon
Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from.
~ Michael Chabon
She can't go in there," he says firmly. "It isn't appropriate." "See this, sweetness?" Bina has fished out her badge. "I'm like a cash gift. I'm always appropriate.
~ Michael Chabon
My grandfather went around to the back door. He did not care if his visit endangered the shopkeeper's life, but he wanted it to seem as though he did.
~ Michael Chabon
Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.
~ Michael Chabon
Everybody counts or nobody counts.
~ Michael Connelly
But when Bosch opened the files as part of his cold-case review, he took a different approach. He had always operated according to the axiom that everybody counts in this world or nobody counts. This belief dictated that he must give each case and each victim his best effort.
~ Michael Connelly
that everybody counted or nobody counted
~ Michael Connelly
Bosch took a step toward him. "Olivas, let's get something clear before we go anywhere. You call me 'Hotshot' again and I'm going to shove the file up your ass without taking it out of my briefcase.
~ Michael Connelly
Sir, I can't talk to you without a mask," Moore said loudly. "Go get a mask.
~ Michael Connelly
I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.
~ Michael Connelly
immediately step off so the big man could
~ Michael Connelly
You don't put ice in Pappy Van Winkle.
~ Michael Connelly
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
~ Michael Crichton