As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Respect the burden.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.