Civility And Respect Quotes

#1. Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Richard John Neuhaus

#2. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

Henry Fielding

#3. Life doesn't add up. People don't add up. And in the rawest moments of honest hurting, God doesn't add up. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

Jennifer Lawrence

#5. The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

Raheel Farooq

#6. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Donald Antrim

#7. Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Jim Leach

#8. I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Dave Eggers

#9. Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.

Neil Gaiman

#10. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Julian Baggini

#11. German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

Adrienne Monnier

#12. Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.

Tim Jackson

#13. If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Ray Davies

#14. Sacraments. I pray to gather density to survive and

Matthew Kelly

#15. A centipede the size of a Pontiac had once lived in the bottom-right corner of the trunk but had long since moved on once he realized that no one was ever going to bother him, so he could stand up on his hind hundred feet, hiss like a pissed cat, and deliver a deadly bite to a naked foot.

Christopher Moore

#16. Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#17. Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Benjamin Barber

#18. Why do you always make it sound like everything was better before I was born?"
"It's not you, Mitchell. There was just more civility back then. We still had respect for authority, I guess. This is what happens when no one trusts the people in power.

Brian K. Vaughan

#19. In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.

Sonam Kapoor

#20. They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.

Lauren Groff

#21. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.

John Patrick Hickey

#22. Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Michelle Shocked

#23. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

Aaron Sorkin

#24. He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

Albert Finney