Quotes
Quotes about Respect
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Nature's above art in that respect.
You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care.
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
No one minds what Jeffrey says:... it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator.
Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.
Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
There is no respect of persons with God.
God gave his creatures the most tremendous endowment, the thing most like his own essence - I mean freedom of choice. If he knows in advance what his creatures are going to do, then he's denying them freedom. So he deliberately blacks out foreknowledge. God could know, if he wished, but out of respect and love for his creatures, he refuses to know. Can you imagine a more awesome gift than this - God denying himself out of sheer love?
