“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
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“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.”
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.”
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”
“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”
“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”
“I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
“At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.”
“It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.”
“Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.”
“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”
“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.”
“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”
“I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.”
“I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.”
“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.”