There is great power in deference. Deference works with…

There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They feel powerful,…

— Christopher Voss

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

— Susan Collins

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

— Warren E. Burger

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother’s authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation to do…

— Marcel Proust

Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure…

— Jean Dubuffet

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

— William Shenstone

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Wilkie Collins

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good…

— Chester A. Arthur

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…

— Marcel Proust

It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who…

— Christopher Durang

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will