939 private quotes tagged respect

“When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.” — John Gray

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“There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.” — Kenneth Starr

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“All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.” — Walter Annenberg

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“We need to respect choices that women make.” — Ann Romney

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“I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.” — Dan Rather

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“I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.” — Jerry Lewis

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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” — Norman Douglas

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“The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.” — Ron Silver

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“You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.” — Christopher Meloni

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“Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.” — Shirley Manson

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“Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.” — Jack Nicklaus

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“Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.” — Mohamed ElBaradei

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“You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.” — K. D. Lang

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“Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.” — Harold Pinter

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“I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.” — Nathan Bedford Forrest

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“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.” — James A. Baldwin

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“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.” — Radha Mitchell

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“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.” — Ralph W. Sockman

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“Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.” — William J. Brennan, Jr.

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“I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.” — Puff Daddy

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“I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.” — Scott Caan

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“Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.” — A. N. Wilson

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“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” — Joseph Ratzinger

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