Respected Quotes

595 quotes by 508 authors

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew… — James Joyce
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. — Mario Puzo
I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with… — Osamu Dazai
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and… — Anton Chekhov
People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. — Jean Vanier
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author… — Robertson Davies
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. — Aldo Leopold
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected… — David Rockefeller
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson. — Barbara Mertz
That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you… — Margaret Mitchell
However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay. — Scott Westerfeld
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions — John Calvin
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The key to a successful relationship isnâ€™t just in the words, itâ€™s in the choice of punctuation. When youâ€™re in love with someone, a well-placed… — David Levithan
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. — Louisa May Alcott
A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. — Ann Aguirre
The Librarian considered matters for a while. Soâ€¦a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were… — Terry Pratchett
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford. — Maureen Johnson
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky
If you spend your life sparing peopleâ€™s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you canâ€™t distinguish what should be respected in them. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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