People Quotes

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

~ Aristotle

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

~ Dolly Parton

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

~ Salman Rushdie

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

~ Newt Gingrich

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

~ Rachel Kushner

My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the People's Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.

~ Kim Jong-Un

I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is.

~ Spike Jonze

Perhaps what's needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

~ Derek Jeter

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

~ Sienna Miller

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

~ Meghan Daum

After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

~ Iman

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

~ Thomas Friedman

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

~ Nas

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

~ Sean Combs

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

~ Margaret Mead

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

~ Ricky Schroder

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

~ Tony Judt

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

~ Dmx

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

~ Riz Ahmed

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

~ Leon Kass

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

~ Lewis B. Smedes

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

~ Roger Goodell

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

~ John W. Gardner

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

~ Carl Paladino

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

~ John Thune

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

~ Duane Chapman

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

~ Studs Terkel

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

~ Patricia Polacco

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

~ Doug E. Fresh

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

~ Jesse L. Martin

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

~ Jennifer Capriati

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

~ Douglas Kirkland

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

~ Kathy Najimy

Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

~ Alexandra Robbins

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

~ Andres Iniesta

The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

~ Yaya Toure

People have to respect intellectual property.

~ Coco Lee

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

~ Joseph Wapner