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Quotes About Respect

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
~ Max Jacob
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
~ Unknown
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
~ Max Nordau
She found the proper phrases to greet each person, affording them dignity and respect without relinquishing an iota of the respect due to her.
~ Unknown
Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.
~ Maxwell Anderson
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
~ May Sarton
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
~ May Sarton
There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."
~ Maya Angelou
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
~ Maya Angelou
When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.
~ Maya Banks
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
~ Maya Lin
The problem with longstanding friends -- they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line.
~ Unknown
Ni haljinu ne valja krpiti, a kamoli ljubav. Bolje je oti?i.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Ne voliš da budeš na smetnji, ne voliš da te ko krivo pogleda, ne voliš da ti iko ružnu rije? kaže. Kako onda misliš živjeti?
~ Meša Selimovi?
Ali mu ne dam zadovoljstvo da se opere mojom grubom rije?i, toliko nije zaslužio.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven't bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Žena više voli nježnu rije?, makar bila i glupa, nego pametnu, ako je gruba.
~ Meša Selimovi?
i shvatio sam kako ?ovjek može lako da posegne za gruboš?u ako nije dorastao nekome.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Take care of the success of those who work with you and they will take care of your success. Honor and respect those who support your success, including the ones who manage you and the ones you manage.
~ Unknown
It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?
~ Meg Rosoff
What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?" "Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...
~ Meg Wolitzer
If Jules or Ash needed to see each other, then the two husbands stepped aside. It almost seemed gratifying to the men to step aside in those moments, remembering what women could have together that men rarely could.
~ Meg Wolitzer
You had to train your mind to remember: human being lying here at my feet, not someone to feel contempt toward.
~ Meg Wolitzer