Quotes About Deference

He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.

14. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Reason, it seems to me, is useless in these matters, becomes either an apologist for faith or its persecutor. Catch me tomorrow; I may change my mind. Today, I'm happy deferring to the muddle.

People are giving me more respect.

Sam's constant deference and humility make many modern readers uncomfortable with its connotations of class difference, and in Peter Jackson's films this differential between Frodo and Sam is softened a bit.

He had the emotional honesty of a Labrador puppy and a reluctance to put on masks out of deference to decorum.

when teams face significant performance pressure, they tend to defer to high-status members, at the expense of using expert team members.

The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

the kowtow was symbolically voluntary: it was the representative deference of a people that had been not so much conquered as awed. The tribute presented to China on such occasions was often exceeded in value by the Emperor's return gifts.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

The physicists defer only to the mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

I have the utmost respect for Thomas Almeida.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

you have to show him respect." "He

The more important you are, the later you arrive.

Conceding in an act of respect. To respect and to be respected is an honor.

And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

When you have somebody like Christie Rampone, with the vast experience she has had, you're going to defer to her line because she has played in so many huge games, and she knows what she's talking about.

When in Jim Crow days police departments were totally white, blacks especially resented the universal contempt shown by police toward all African-Americans, officers almost always using their authority to demand deference from blacks. An African-American, regardless of his economic or educational status, who failed to address a police officer with due deference became an obvious target for police reprisals.

her view of gender distinction was that men were a different breed from women, you deferred to them in some respects and recognized that they had special needs--cooked breakfast and somewhere to go and smoke.