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Quotes About Respect

You may additionally tell him that Master Sergeant Antonio Ruiz has declared that you are not nearly the dipshit that most of your fellow recruits have turned out to be." "Thank you, Master Sergeant." "Don't let it go to your head, Private. You are still a dipshit. Just not a very big one." "Of course, Master Sergeant.
~ John Scalzi
It was nice when you could look up to your parent, even as an adult, and think, This is who I fucking want to be when I grow up.
~ John Scalzi
The funeral. The one with presidents and ministers and secretaries of this or that, representing these or those, all decked out and solemn in black and respect. It was the biggest funeral ever, somebody had said. Everyone who was anyone, everywhere that was anywhere, had somebody, a Somebody, in attendance. Nobody wanted to miss the funeral.
~ John Steakley
Always treat other drivers like they are an overenthusiastic extra from the Mad Max movies.
~ Unknown
Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.
~ John Steinbeck
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.
~ John Steinbeck
Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.
~ John Steinbeck
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.
~ John Steinbeck
Fella had a team of horses, had to use'em to plow an' cultivate an' mow, wouldn't think a turnin' 'em out to starve when they wasn't workin'. Them's horses - we're men.
~ John Steinbeck
Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
~ John Steinbeck
I nearly forgot something my old father told me not long before he died. He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.
~ John Steinbeck
Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
~ John Steinbeck
She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing.
~ John Steinbeck
You keep out of my bed," said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.
~ John Steinbeck
What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.
~ John Steinbeck
Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.
~ John Steinbeck
And by the same token she is hated by the twisted and lascivious sisterhood of married spinsters whose husbands respect the home but don't like it very much. Dora
~ John Steinbeck
If I'm a little late, don't go before I get there, will you? Would you like to carry my books home? Yes, said Cal. She looked at him long, full in the eyes, until he wanted to drop his gaze, and then she walked away toward her class.
~ John Steinbeck
And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.
~ John Steinbeck
Git, Ma said. They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension
~ John Steinbeck
Daca nu poti vedea sau auzi sau atinge un om, e mai bine sa-l lasi in pace.
~ John Steinbeck