Famous Quotes

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."

J. D. Salinger on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

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

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by J. D. Salinger

• "I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

• "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

• "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."

• "I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

• "I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."