#respect

Sounds naive respecting someone who doesn't give a shit about you. ↗

— Toba Beta

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Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it. ↗

— R. G. Risch

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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. ↗

— Dave Barry

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. ↗

— Mark Twain

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If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas. ↗

— John Scalzi

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If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose? ↗

— Tara Kelly

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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Hey show some respect. They’re real people with names. Carla and Krissy” He frowned. “Or was it Missy? ↗

— Richelle Mead

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Xavier leaned forward. "Sarcasm aside, you don't need a guy like that, Elena. Maybe you think you do - only female werewolf and all that - but hell, I've seen what you can do - tied to a chair, up against a male werewolf. You can do that, you don't need some fucking psychopath like Clayton Danvers-" He stopped, noticing my gaze. "He's standing right behind me, isn't he?" Xavier muttered. "Uh-huh." Xaview tilted his head back, saw Clay, and disappeared. He reappeared on the opposite bench, pressed up against me. I looked over at him, eyebrow raised. He swore under his breath and teleported to the far end of the other bench. Then he stood and turned to Clay. "You must be-" "The fucking psychopath," Clay said. "Er, right, but I meant that in the most respectful way. Believe me, I have the utmost regard for, uh..." "Raging lunatics," I said. Xavier shot me a glare. "Oh sit down," I said. "He didn't bring his chain saw. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

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