939 private quotes tagged respect

“So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.” — Eriq La Salle

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“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.” — Cate Blanchett

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“No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.” — Bette Davis

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“You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.” — Octavia Spencer

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“I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.” — Stefanie Powers

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“It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.” — James F. Byrnes

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“Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.” — Jil Sander

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“I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.” — Emma Bunton

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“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” — Stockwell Day

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“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.” — Horst Koehler

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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” — Abbie Hoffman

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“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.” — Jane Addams

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“I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.” — Lindsay Lohan

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“Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.” — Thomas Keller

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“We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.” — Theodore C. Sorensen

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“You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

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“The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.” — Jane Smiley

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“Respect and fear are two different things.” — Jane Smiley

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“The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.” — Mercy Otis Warren

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“I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.” — Erykah Badu

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“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.” — Abdul Kalam

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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.” — Audre Lorde

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“Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.” — Carol P. Christ

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