Quotes About Respect

Expecting more from the president of the United States springs from respect for the country, its institutions and the White House itself. It springs from standards, the falling of which concerns natural conservatives. It isn't snobbery. The people trying to wrap their heads around this presidency are patriots too. That's one of the hellish things about this era.

We're all the same, and none of us are in this world for all that long. We must learn to love and respect each other and understand there is a greater power driving the bus. We're only passengers. Our job is the enjoy the ride!

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Quedarías tú, pero no se puede estar dentro de la piel de otro. Seríamos dos. Y tú eres completa. Tú entera ya eres demasiado; y como todo merece ser conservado, más vale que seas distinta a mí.

Le soir venait. Il les vit et s'arrêta près d'eux pour ne pas les troubler.

reputation for integrity and honor is something you can take anywhere, and it will never let you down.

There was no moral equivalence among systems of government, their leaders, or cultures. Any society that did not respect human rights or the rule of law could not consider itself the equal of those that did.

And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.

My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships...I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the lonliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy. Dr Van Helsing to Mia Seward.

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic—for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be.

Sir Doctor, we esteem very much the Hexenmeister of the Great Vellinton.

I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.

The idea of forty precious volumes being taken into a country in a state of war where they might get burnt, blown up, drowned or dusty was almost too horrible to contemplate. Mr Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might – horror of horrors! – read them and try the spells! Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know.

The knowledge we seek isn't something new. It's old. Really old. Once upon a time people possessed it and they used it to do great things, miraculous things. They should have held on to it. They should have respected it. But they didn't. They abandoned it for the sake of something they called progress. And it's up to us to get it back. We're not doing this for ourselves; we're doing it for humanity.

it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

I have known for many years that The Other does not revere the House in the same way I do, but it still shocks me when he talks like this. How can a man as intelligent as him say there is nothing alive in this House?

Förståelse föds ur ödmjukhet, inte ur allvetandets högmod.

Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.