Quotes About Respect

strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

care desperately in a perversely curious-about-your-sex-life way," Merrick said. "You never tell me anything about your personal life. You don't hit on me. You ignore me when I hit on you. You keep our work relationship professional no matter how hard I try to make it unprofessional. It's like you have integrity or something, and quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.

Ma'am. It should've made her feel old and possibly respected, but instead made her flash on a vision of herself in librarian glasses and a pencil skirt, with her hair in a bun and a ruler in her hand.

In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's

long as man "has the physical power, as well as the conventional" to treat a woman "like a play-thing or a slave," she'd written portentously to Sophia, "woman must wait until the lion shall lie down with the lamb, before she can hope to be the friend and companion of man.

But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many of these "show[ed] by their unformed features and mechanical movements" the ill effects of having been "treated by wholesale"; they were not accorded the respect that engenders "self-respect.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

We help others only as much as they let us.

I know she's young, but she's old enough to know that such blatant bumpwatching is just about the rudest thing you can do to someone in my concave condition.

Are you afraid of offending people? Telling them things that they don't want to hear?' 'Yuh,' I said, nodding vigorously.

The whole of your being is sacred to me.

Remember that the first step in spirituality is not to speak ill of others. All human beings have weaknesses and faults. Yet they are all God in their being. Until they become Realized, they have their imperfections. Therefore, before trying to find faults in others and speaking ill of them, try to find your own weaknesses and correct those.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

Don't give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!