It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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