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Quotes About Respect

Ulf sighed. Why could people not live together in harmony? Why did people think that berating and assaulting others should do anything but make everything worse for everybody?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In the past we've been so casual about hurting people, about allowing people to be disparaged because they're different in some way. If you disparage people for what they are, then you're saying something about their nature, about who they are. You're saying You don't count as much as others because of what you are." He paused. "And that's pretty devastating, isn't it?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Take care of your clothes when they're new, but your honour from a tender age.
~ Alexander Pushkin
People believe only in fame and do not understand that there might be among them some Napoleon, who has never commanded a single company of chasseurs, or another Descartes, who has not published a single line in the Moscow Telegraph. However, our respect for fame may well come from vanity: our own voice, too, goes into the making of fame.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Listen, my little peasant
~ Alexander Pushkin
Elbiseni yeniyken, namusunu gençken koru.
~ Alexander Pushkin
As a Minnesota agency nurse said, "We are not just bed-making, drink-serving, poop-wiping, medication-passing assistants. We are much more.
~ Alexandra Robbins
wish I could start a revolution for ER nurses specifically; we are the rock stars of nursing, but are treated like the red-headed bastard stepchild." —a North Carolina ER nurse
~ Alexandra Robbins
Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Ignoring is a form of bullying because you're blocking that person out. It doesn't matter if you don't like somebody. That's fine. You don't have to. But you need to be cordial to and communicate with that person at work.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Punctuality is the politness of kings p.154
~ Alexandre Dumas
Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
~ Alexandre Dumas
But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) It is my name, Athos said calmly. But you said your name was d'Artagnan. I? Yes, you. That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.
~ Alexandre Dumas
To despise flowers is to offend God.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you.
~ Donald L. Hicks
If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. But don't crank the volume up so loudly you annoy the heck out of all the neighbors.
~ Donald Lee
Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least,
~ Donald Margulies
Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes
~ Donald McCaig
It is not the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's generics, not to impose man's will over dog's. It may be worth noting that many Scottish hill dogs never know the weight
~ Donald McCaig
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
~ Donald Miller