Quotes About Respect

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste.

You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.

They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.

And yet death was not something you could ignore. It had its weight. It was a dead man lying upstairs, not a man who was sick. It seemed to her she had better not form the practice of ignoring death. If she tried it, death would find a way to answer back—it would take another of her loved ones, to remind her to respect it.

He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

I guess we could pile some rocks on her, Call said. I hate just to leave a body laying out. Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway, Gus said. Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?

Though a Kickapoo, the man had respect for the old ways. He behaved like the old ones behaved; the old ones, too, would go to any lengths to learn some useful fact about the animals or the birds. They would figure that someone might need to know those facts; they themselves might not need to, but their children might, or their grandchildren might.

I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt

I wish you'd stop talking about your own death, Gus said, in a joking tone. It ain't genteel.

Van der Stel, the thin Afrikaner who spoke of "Kaffirs" and expected blacks to call him "Baas" —but who also had genuine respect for the Zulu scouts, and always listened to their advice.

Admiral's compliments, and you're to come to his office right away, Midshipman Staley announced.

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Deputy sheriff." He looked down at his shirt as though he expected to see his badge there. "Which I owe to your granddad and your dad. You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away. Took me a while to learn that.

I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

Obeying the order you don't approve of is the only real proof of obedience. She taught me that.

Should have shames a good slave. It shames a good man, period.

Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love

You should be careful not to take the person you love for granted. Not only because they'll notice. But you'll notice too. You'll think it means something it doesn't.

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.