Wise Respectful Quotes & Sayings

I avoid the looming visitor,
Flee him adroitly around corners,
Hating him, wishing him well;

Lest if he confront me I be forced to say what is in no wise true:
That he is welcome; that I am unoccupied;
And forced to sit while the potted roses wilt in the crate or the sonnet cools

Bending a respectful nose above such dried philosophies
As have hung in wreaths from the rafters of my house since I was a child.

Some trace of kindliness in this, no doubt,
There may be.
But not enough to keep a bird alive.

There is a flaw amounting to a fissure
In such behaviour. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved. — Daphne Kalotay

And for the first time in his life Peter understood what the opposite of lost was: that it had nothing to do with maps or directions or staying on course; that it was, in fact, nothing more than being found. — Jennifer E. Smith

But God answered with silence. He did that sometimes, and Father Ferguson always interpreted it to mean that he should think for himself. Admittedly, it didn't always work out well when the pastor thought for himself, but you couldn't just give up. — Jonas Jonasson

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. — Robert De Niro

Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs. — Susun Weed

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. — Andy Hargreaves

If you wake up today, it's on purpose, it's a gift. — Lacey Sturm

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful. — Christian Nestell Bovee

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon. — Christopher Isherwood

The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. — Jack Canfield

But - I cut myself off. The truth is I don't give a fuck what happens — J. Kenner

Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become. — Dallin H. Oaks

Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure. — Evan Dando

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman. — Samuel R. Delany

When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity"

Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop in AS GOOD AS IT GETS — Various

I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!"
"You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!"
"Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments! — Georgette Heyer

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers