Quotes About Respect

The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

Some people carry this philosophy too far. They look at the damage mankind does to the natural world, and they forget that humans are animals as well, and also deserving of reverence.

Older women Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are worth it.

There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank.

Be friendly with the cookhouse detail.

This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

I know," I said. "You already don't respect me because you saw me naked.

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

there with the unfamiliar insignia of their rank.

Being dumb wasn't a capital crime. Wasn't a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap.

But this guy was five years too old for that. And behind his greeting he had a proprietorial air. He was saying welcome, for sure, but to my house. Like he owned the place.

Don't give the man with the gun a reason to worry about you.

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

Sea respetuoso. —De acuerdo. —Sea educado. Fuera del puesto estamos en sus manos. Es una jurisdicción civil. —Los civiles me son familiares. En una ocasión, conocí a uno.

Which is why turning myself into a sex object now would be taking a big step backwards for me and all women in the department.

Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.

I knew he used to call the old man Saturday mornings to talk baseball or politics, trying to keep him from sinking into the marsh of incurious disapproval that swallows so many ancients.

education, had never respected the glowing objective of perfect attendance (a goal set for kids, he said, "by adults with ruined imaginations").

It went to show that anyone could deliver good news, including a person like Martin Andreeson, even if he wasn't doing so purposefully, and even if he was the king of pukes in most respects.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved.

I have had many patients who expected themselves to perform in ways which were constitutionally impossible. We were not created equal except for the respect which we may demand for who we are. Sorting the possible from the impossible empowers these people to give their energies to the things they can do, and to leave to others those which they are inherently unprepared.

Le persone che riescono a tenere tra le mani una vita nascente con freddezza e senza timore reverenziale hanno ucciso qualcosa nella propria anima.

Poiché non conosciamo davvero la loro vita interiore - cosa provano e percepiscono - corriamo il rischio di privarle della loro dignità trattandole come se non ne avessero. Il solo fatto che noi non vorremmo mai essere al loro posto non significa che in loro non sia rimasto niente che meriti rispetto.