Quotes About Refusing To Be Disrespected

#1. I can't control your behavior; nor do I want that burden ... but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.

Steve Maraboli

#2. ... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.

Alan Bradley

#3. I did it by myself, but I didn't do it alone.

Alexandra Silber

#4. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Helen Caldicott

#5. Shouldn't you have today off? Isn't it Sunday?"
"I've a half day off ever' three days. I'll be out temorra afte'noon."
I snort. "A half day?"
God, that's ridiculous. She doesn't even get a single full day off? What is Alex, some kind of slave driver? Jeez.

Mandy Hubbard

#6. Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.

Shashi Tharoor

#7. Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Abdu'l- Baha

#8. You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#9. If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Arthur Smith

#10. I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

Joan Rivers

#11. I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

Tom Rush

#12. In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

Florence King

#13. You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

Mark Batterson

#14. Homo is a common name to all men.

William Shakespeare

#15. Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

Laini Taylor

#16. I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Michael Ignatieff