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Quotes About Respect

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.
~ John Dingell
You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.
~ John Donne
man is so little, in respect of the greatest man, as the greatest in respect of God; for here, in that, we have not so much as a measure to try it by; proportion is no measure for infinity.
~ John Donne
When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face.
~ John Drinkwater
Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other
~ John Dufresne
When the series outlived original material, she created new stories, but used some character or incident in the canon as her jump-off point. So successful was she at capturing the color of the written word that she drew warm praise from Conan Doyle's widow and son. Denis Conan Doyle, watching from the sponsor's booth as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce became his father's characters in a 1941 radio play, pronounced it "admirable, absolutely admirable.
~ John Dunning
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
~ Dante Alighieri
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
~ George H. W. Bush
In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.
~ Hugh Panaro
O reputation! dearer far than life.
~ James Russell Lowell
My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.
~ Jean Peters
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
~ Jermaine Dupri
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
~ William Boyd
Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.
~ John Jay Hooker
As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.
~ Kate Langley Bosher
You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.
~ Kevin DeYoung
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield
~ Marie Windsor
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
~ Mayim Bialik
Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.
~ Mel Gibson
I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.
~ Melanie Chisholm
Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.
~ Neil Strauss
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.
~ Peter Singer