I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball.
— Michael Beasley
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
— Mercy Otis Warren
My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.
— Melvin Van Peebles
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
— Megyn Kelly
I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.
— Megan Fox
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
— Maya Angelou
Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.
— May-Britt Moser
I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you.
— Max Verstappen
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
— Max Nordau
My coaches deserve a lot of respect.
— Max Holloway
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
— Max Heindel
Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.
— Max Baucus
As an announcer, I have nothing but respect for the fighters, and I want to make sure I do my job to let the people know who these courageous warriors are, because they are putting their lives on the line for our entertainment, and there's something to be said about that.
— Mauro Ranallo
I go into calling any match, any fight - I don't care if it's the main event or the opener - that these guys have put in their work: they're here for a reason, and there's a reason I'm calling this fight, so I do want to give it as much attention and respect and energy as I would the main event or a championship fight.
The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.
— Mauricio Macri
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
— Maurice Sendak
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.
— Maurice Druon
I think women are much more open to new ideas but approach a line more from a more personal and skeptical place - you need to seduce them into your clothes, whereas most men just like to be told what they should be wearing. Women are a bit like cats and men like dogs in that respect when it comes to clothes.
— Michael Bastian
Legal immigrants deserve respect for following the laws of our nation and completing the process. This is not an extreme concept. It is a matter of simply protecting our nation's sovereignty and knowing who is coming into our nation.
— Mercedes Schlapp
I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
— Melissa Bank
People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
— Meghan Daum
If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I'm trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I'm very proud to be connected with them.
— Maya Hawke
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.
Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'
— Maxwell
When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.
— Max Scherzer
'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.
— Max Landis
I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.
My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.
— Max Boot
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he's done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He's a workaholic. He's passionate. He loves what he does.
To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.
— Mauricio Pochettino
You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
— Maurice Saatchi
It's very rewarding to know that people respect what you do.
— Matthew Ramsey
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
— Meryl Streep
I am the person I am. Everybody has to respect that.
— Memphis Depay
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
— Mehmet Oz
I can understand if you think that I'm disrespecting the flag by kneeling, but it is because of my utmost respect for the flag and the promise it represents that I have chosen to demonstrate in this way.
— Megan Rapinoe
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.
— Maximillian Degenerez
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
— Max Irons
People always say, 'I want to be the best fighter in the world.' That's why I respect Conor. He said he wants to be the best fighter in the world, and he's trying to prove it.
My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'
Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.
— Max Azria
We all know the difference between sports entertainment and the combat sports that I call, but at the end of the day, they are all spawned from the same source, and there's a lot of mutual respect between the two bodies.
If my ambition in Tottenham is only to win the Carabao Cup or FA Cup, with all the respect for that, I think my ambition does not match the ambition of a club like Tottenham.
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
— Maurice Strong
The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.
— Maurice Flanagan
