Quotes About Respect

High is the fife and low the drum, And people lean to see, And hats are off where heroes come, And none is off to me.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't.

Today is Sunday, sir," said Bush, simply.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

I-thou relationship. Martin Buber's term for a special relationship that is possible between persons when those persons relate to each other in a fully personal way and do not think of the other as an object to be manipulated or as a means to an end. Buber believed that such relationships make possible a different kind of knowledge of the other and that it is possible to have such a relation with God, who is the absolute Thou.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of "reconciliation" between the sections, "material reconstruction" of the South, and a way of restoring "mutual respect and affection" at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult.

Show me the woman that leaves a man some breathing room, acknowledges he might know a thing or two about the human heart, and I'll show you a rare and happy man.

friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.

We can get in touch with another person only by an attitude of unprejudiced objectivity.

The important thing is what he talks about, not whether he agrees with it or not.

We must not attempt to tell nature what to do if we want to observe her operations undisturbed.

Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.

I'm here to pay my respects to the Kleinsasser family," Cassie said after a beat. "It's over, John Wayne. I know everything." His face twitched. The color drained out of it. "What in the hell are you talking about?" he asked. "I know about your mine," she said. "I know how you framed Blake. I know enough to put you into Deer Lodge prison for a very long time.

Joe said, "I think I know. Too bad you can't just coexist with them.

Larry didn't agree, but he didn't argue.

He was like a god to her. What happens when your god dies? Sebastian wondered. When someone is your sun and moon and stars, and then you discover something, something that reveals a hitherto unknown weakness so fundamental, so shattering that it destroys not only your trust in the other person, but your respect, too. Some people never recover from that kind of disillusionment.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.