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Quotes About Respect

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead, he suggested. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're very polite, but I belong to another generation
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
About Ernest Hemingway] He's a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
What if I do? I've heard you and Maury, and everyone else for whose intellect I have the slightest respect, agree that life as it appears is utterly meaningless. But it's always seemed to me that if I were unconsciously learning something here it might not be so meaningless.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn't really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn't want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.
~ Fannie Flagg
More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, preciselly because they lead rather than follow.
~ Fareed Zakaria
After centuries of bemoaning the fact that the young are too rebellious and disrespectful, the problem today, it appears, is that they are not rebellious and disrespectful enough. They aren't willing to challenge conventional wisdom, neither the liberal pieties that offended Allan Bloom nor the conservative ones that gall Deresiewicz. After having been pilloried for trying to destroy the bourgeois order in the 1960s and 1970s, the youth are now scorned for being too bourgeois.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Good government is about limited power but clear lines of authority. It is about giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it. This is not something that can be created overnight, but it can be done. Taiwan and South Korea were not born with good government.
~ Fareed Zakaria
giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Listening is always preferable to talking. Let the other remove his veil, as my grandmother used to say. Give your response time to ripen.
~ Fariba Hachtroudi
mono iwazu / kyaku to teishu to / shiragiku to Saying nothing: Guest and host and white chrysanthemum.
~ Faubion Bowers
I don't mean to be rude, but
~ Fern Michaels
Do unto others as you want done to you :O)
~ Fern Michaels
never do anything like this without telling me
~ Fern Michaels
Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.
~ Fernado Pessoa
We should wash our destiny the way we wash our body, and change life the way we change clothes – not to preserve life, as when we eat and sleep, but out of objective respect for ourselves, which is what personal hygiene is all about.
~ Fernando Pessoa