Respectable Women Quotes

#1. We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Alister E. McGrath

#2. Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

Pat Conroy

#3. Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

Douglas Crockford

#4. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#5. Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

Nikki Sixx

#6. People will think you're courting me.'
'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

Julia Quinn

#7. But now respectable elderly women do not need to excuse themselves for buying brandy or even gin, though it is quite likely that some still do and perhaps one may hope that they always will.

Barbara Pym

#8. You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.

Kate Atkinson

#9. He'd been respectable and respectful, always treating women

Melody Anne

#10. San Quentin's is the safest beach in the world. We're not talking about lifeguards here who might yell at someone who's being rude-we're talking about armed guards, in watchtowers, two blocks away.

Anne Lamott

#11. No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

Lin Yutang

#12. War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

Charlotte Lamb

#13. When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

Margaret Mahy

#14. It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Karen Essex

#15. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

Austin O'Malley

#16. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Ram Dass

#17. I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Julia Roberts

#18. The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

Leslye Walton

#19. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#20. The Sage sees the world
as an expansion of his own self
So what need has he to accumulate things?

Lao-Tzu

#21. Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.

Victor Hugo

#22. Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

William P. Merrill

#23. A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

Jack White

#25. Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune

Kellie Coates Gilbert

#26. Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Sacha Guitry

#27. Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.

Roy Keane

#28. Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#29. You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.

Steven Pressfield

#30. that one thing that was absent was fire. There was no zeal, no enthusiasm, no apparent concern for us as members of the congregation. His whole attitude seemed to be detached and academic and formal. Let

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones