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Quotes About Respect

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What
~ J.D. Robb
Eve leaned in again. "I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you'd better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.
~ J.D. Robb
There's nobody on the job, nobody with a badge I respect more than you. - Eve You never were a rookie, he told her in a voice roughened with emotion. So I saw good, solid cop the minute I laid eyes on you. I gave you a hell of a foundation, kid, a lot of seasoning and pushed you hard because I knew you could take it. You put yourself here. And I'm proud. - Feeney
~ J.D. Robb
You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs." Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit.
~ J.D. Robb
People who act like assholes get treated like assholes
~ J.D. Robb
Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. —Frank A. Clark
~ J.D. Robb
You know, a lot of women would get pissed off at having their husband star in their aide's purient little fantasies." "But you're bigger than that, Lieutenant. I like that about you.
~ J.D. Robb
Darling? Spare a minute?" She came back, her 'link pressed, screen down, to her chest. And hissed, "Don't call me darling when I'm talking to cops." "Sorry, Lieutenant Darling." She rolled her eyes. "What?
~ J.D. Robb
And we don't hit people when they say stupid things. Because they're allowed to, it's not against the law. People can be as stupid as they want, and we just ignore them. We can say, 'You're wrong,' or maybe, 'You're an idiot,' but that's it. We don't hit 'em, we just ignore 'em. Right?
~ J.D. Robb
She didn't hurry as she walked to him. Something told her he was a man too used to people — women certainly — rushing toward him. So she took her time, her long, slow strides flapping her borrowed coat around her chilly legs.
~ J.D. Robb
It would be sheer hell to be privy to thoughts and memories without some power to control and block. I don't like to pry into personal thoughts. And it hurts
~ J.D. Robb
He'd been tempted to wander into her bedroom while he'd had the apartment to himself and see what he might have discovered about her there, but he'd resisted. It was not so much respect for her privacy as it was the challenge she presented that provoked him to discover her from the woman alone rather than her surroundings.
~ J.D. Robb
give details, professional courtesy
~ J.D. Robb
You did good today. I won't have to think twice going through the door with you. As Eve walked away, Peabody gaped after her. It had been simply, even casually said, but it was the finest professional compliment she'd ever been given.
~ J.D. Robb
The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.
~ J.D. Robb
The problem with progress is that it often sweeps aside, destroying rather than respecting what others have built before us.
~ J.D. Robb
But that was personal. No one, absolutely no one comes into our home and speaks to you that way.
~ J.D. Robb
Creating life is the job of a higher power. It's our job, our duty and our joy, to nurture life, protect and respect it.
~ J.D. Robb
People who at like assholes get treated like assholes.
~ J.D. Robb
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. —Mark Twain
~ J.D. Robb
Not only had the nefarious Candy Thief snatched her chocolate, he/she had taken the time and trouble to replace it with the actual item on the freaking menu. She had to respect that.
~ J.D. Robb
Now, the two of you remember: People who act like assholes get treated like assholes.
~ J.D. Robb
You continue to not be and asshole, Kyung. I do my best to maintain that benchmark.
~ J.D. Robb
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX
~ J.D. Robb