Quotes About Respect

He hit McMaster twice, with the left from fear, with the right from courtesy.

What Slattery wants is a ring painted on concrete in the empty desert. With no living spectator around for miles, just him and the grinning demons. A chance to fight them each, one by one . . . to leave them broken and humbled, or even to lose the fights, but with nobility, and earn the respect of all the men who have showed him none. I want peace, he thinks to himself late at night. I want peace. But then he dreams of fistfights.

It's better to swallow pride than blood.

Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.

And are even quite polite, at first, as they discuss whose name exactly it was their son had just said.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

You shall not put people to death lazily, because of who they are.' 'We

it hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart! -

Ultimately, organizations run through directive approaches fail. They might perform in the very short term, but they can never sustain it. Or they drive people away; they don't like working where they are treated like idiots.

I never met an authority figure I didn't like.

Good design is a form of respect—on the part of the producer for the person who will spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

Eddie is a man in all that noun means.

There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.

But why do adults, why do parents not realise that children desperately wish to do things not so much out of duty, but out of love? And you can't force anything to love anything else against its nature.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

there was no shame in crying when something or someone was worth crying over.

As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won't catch them, or, what's worse, you might.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.

Tolerance isn't just a discourse of power, it is also a discourse of conditionality; that is to say, you will be tolerated unless and until you behave in certain ways, at which point I will no longer tolerate you.

Yeah, you're hard to respect But easy to please.