Respectful Quotes - Page 8

• Be respectful of words. They mean something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Mean, Be Respectful

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.274, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

  Jimmy Wales

  Community, Abuse, Wikipedia

  "The Wisdom of One" by Nick Miller, www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don't lose your voice.

  Mark Driscoll

  Godly, Voice, Use

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• Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

  Fielding H. Yost

  School, Player, Honor

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• In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Fall, Flower

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• I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Want, Garbage, Waste

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

  David Tennant

  Real, Balance, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like the laid-back, polite, respectful courteous personality cowboys have. Guys almost lay down their life for you if they're your friends. You exist on a handshake rather than a signed contract.

  Jeff Kent

  Cowboy, Personality, Guy

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• Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

  Conan O'Brien

  Holiday, Epcot, Mexican

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• All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

  Angela Carter

  Artist, Self, Mad

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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• I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

  Axl Rose

  Running, Rocks, People

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• In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, People, Abuse

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• Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.

  Victor Villasenor

  People, Jaguars, Common

  Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press

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• I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

  Bobby Bowden

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

  Ricky Gervais

  Weekend, Night, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

  Mario Andretti

  Enough, Drivers, Educate

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• All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

  Francisco Costa

  People, Connections, Stubborn

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• Crankiness is a human attribute that when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  Ursula Burns

  Doors, People, Way

  "Beyond the copy: Xerox CEO keeps focus on the business process". "Conversations from the Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.

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• The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4541, Delphi Classics

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• My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Men, Long

  "Patti Davis on rebelling against Reagan" by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes comprised more than this, but it always included this. It was the opposite of doubt and of the spirit of doubt. What irreverent men called credulity, reverent men called faith; and although one word was more respectful than the other, yet the two words were with most men strictly synonymous.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Opposites, Ideas

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.63

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• Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Father, Dust, Hands

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.561, Harvard University Press

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• A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, War, Advice

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1015, Library of America

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