Adrienne Rich Quotes, Life Quotes, Respect Quotes

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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The icy precepts of respect.

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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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 to respect you.

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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