Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
— Bill Nighy
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
— Bill McCollum
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
— Bill Gross
We owe these heroes a great deal - it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.
— Bill Foster
I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.
— Bill Cassidy
I have a lot of respect for Shaq. He's one of the greatest NBA centers of all time.
— Big Show
With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
— Bidzina Ivanishvili
I believe 'Sonchiriya' is a film that will be recalled with much pride and respect for many years from now. We all worked very hard to make it a special work, and the director Abhishek Sir is a genius.
— Bhumi Pednekar
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
— Bette Davis
We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.
— Betsy DeVos
Respect is important, and if you don't have it you won't be on the professional level very long.
— Beth Phoenix
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
— Bertrand Russell
The British people in the north are very friendly and treat me well on the streets. They have great respect and don't bother me.
— Bernardo Silva
I respect the choice of the people and I respect the law.
— Benny Gantz
There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there's a certain respect level about them.
— Benjamin Watson
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
— Benjamin Harrison
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
— Bill Murray
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
— Bill Kurtis
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
— Bill Goldberg
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
— Bill Drayton
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.
— Bill Bradley
Professionally, John Cena has my respect more than anybody I've ever been around in the ring and out of the ring.
I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.
— Bianca Del Rio
I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.
— Betty Wright
I have the greatest respect for Chief Harteau. I was a very firm supporter of hers when her nomination was brought forward, and I think that her goals and values are in line with mine when it comes to the Police Department.
— Betsy Hodges
Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
— Beth Moore
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
— Bernard Hopkins
I recommend voting Blue and White, but I respect any decision.
There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
— Benjamin Franklin
When I was very young, my brother and I, we used to go into charity shops to buy suits. The thing about clothes is that people judge you by what you wear, unfortunately. So when we wore suits, people gave us respect - we were very young, and it made them think we were older.
— Benjamin Clementine
I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.
— Bill Mumy
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
— Bill Kristol
The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
— Bill Frist
I have always had great respect for those who served. In my time, we had the draft.
— Bill Cowher
I can honestly say that I never 'enjoyed' our meetings, but the respect I have for Peyton Manning as a competitor was, and will likely remain, second to none.
— Bill Belichick
My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.
Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.
— Bianca Balti
I don't love horror, I respect it as a genre.
— Betty Gabriel
Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.
With all due respect to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, neither of them understand Texas, nor do they understand the U.S.-Mexico border.
— Beto O'Rourke
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
I have so much respect for what's funny.
— Bernie Mac
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
— Benny Green
Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.
The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
— Benjamin E. Mays
