quotes about Deference

last updated: November 28, 2023

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.
-- Susan Collins

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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
-- William Shenstone

Source : William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254

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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
-- William Shenstone

Source : William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.52

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“Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.”

Source : Helen Nielsen (2012). “After Midnight”, p.165, F+W Media, Inc.
“It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.”
“I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.”
“They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”
“Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different”
“At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.”

Source : "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2008.
“The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.”
“In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.”
“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.”