Respects Quotes

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. View quote
Mark Twain
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. View quote
P. T. Barnum
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. (Carl L. Becker)
Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was. View quote
Samuel Pepys
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. View quote
Origen
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. View quote
O. Henry
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion. View quote
Joseph Addison
South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing - for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. (Joyce Carol Oates)
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. View quote
Cyril Connolly
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week. View quote
Warren E. Burger
The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience. View quote
Colin Wilson