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Quotes About Respect

You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.
~ Sue Grafton
If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
~ Sue Grafton
Whenever Jehovah's Witnesses appear at my door, I always ask for their addresses first thing, assuring them that I'll be around later in the week to plague them with my views. While
~ Sue Grafton
its embrace. The sky still claims them and we who honor them will hold them dear from this day forward.
~ Sue Grafton
How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?
~ Sue Harrison
You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I realize I'm trying to work out the boundaries. How to love her without interfering. How to step back and let her have her private world and yet still be an intimate part of it. When she talks about her feelings, I have to consciously tell myself she wants me to receive them, not fix them.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exists behind them
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exist behind them.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We worship differently, but we are not so far apart in our hearts
~ Sujata Massey
She turned her attention from Maharani Putlabai to Mirabai. Why was the younger queen on a chair and not a cushion? Perhaps it was a statement of her middling position—that she was not high enough for the zenana throne, but she was respected enough not to be somewhat elevated.
~ Sujata Massey
Never hint that there is something wrong with their country.
~ Suki Kim
Be careful with your terminology: Great Leader, Dear Leader, Precious Leader. Those names have to be carefully used, or better yet, just stay away from discussing them at all.
~ Suki Kim
No way. Don't touch that. If their book said it was true, you can't tell them that it's a lie.
~ Suki Kim
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons
~ Sun Tzu
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
~ Sun Tzu