Quotes About Respect

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

People are always glad when you address them in their own language, I have found, even though your knowledge may not extend further than what you have memorised from a dictionary or phrase book.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

The purpose of family is to preserve life,' Aunt Patti said. 'We treat family members the way we're supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

Only the people who get you, deserve you.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Greg made us see, after an enormous amount of effort, that if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ain't nothing that's going to get in his way. And if he's not sane, why would you want him?

history is something not to be underestimated, and even if the present was gone, a shared history must be respected

When you finally do fall in love, don't you dare be smug about it. In

[To Dan Quayle:] Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

A secretary is not a toy.

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.

Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too.

Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say

A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.