Respect Me Quotes - Page 2

• When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

  Michael Jordan

  Play, League, May

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

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• When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Husband, Believe, Suffering

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Looks, Proud, Littles

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• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  Mara Wilson

  People, Appreciate, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Men, Mvp

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• I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Hardship

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• And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

  John Osborne

  Hatred, Triumph, Majority

  John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”

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• I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

  Adele

  Rich Or Poor, White, Black

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• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  Omar Sharif

  Respect, People, Personality

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• We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Giving, Mind

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• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Past, Men

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• I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

  Caligula

  Long, Leader, Care

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• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  Neil Diamond

  Respect, Peers, Enough

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• I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Who I Am, Directors

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• There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Long, Advantage

  "Biden's Brief". Interview with Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?

  Kiersten White

  Sweet, Children, Jumping

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• We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I’d won his respect. I’d had werewolves love me and hate me, but I’d never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hate, Years, Two

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• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Respect, Bags, Paper

  Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Want, Want To Be With Someone

  "Hellcats' star Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka talk boys and cheerleading in Seventeen" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2010.

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• New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

  ASAP Rocky

  New York, Men, Swag

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• I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, People, Honest

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• It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mean, Long, Live Your Life

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• He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. “She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I’m being reasonable—but I shouldn’t hold out hope that that day will ever come—try to love me before she’s an old woman, and I’d better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I’m not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?

  Julie Garwood

  Believe, Honor, Promise

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Wedding”, p.54, Penguin

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• Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.

  Fethullah Gulen

  God, Respect, Spiritual

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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• Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Home, Rivers

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