Words matter. These are the best Respectability Quotes from famous people such as Theodore Zeldin, Bhushan Kumar, Miroslav Volf, Sam Keen, Rick Famuyiwa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I’d like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.
Our label was always known as a mass brand. To bridge that gap and to take it to the classes by bringing it a respectability with niche brand associations was what I took up as a challenge.
Naked need is the occasion for God’s giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
There’s this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of ‘How does this look?’ instead of ‘Who are these characters?’
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That’s what I mean by respectability.
When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it’s a commitment. And if you don’t want to commit, then don’t be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it’s always been like that.
Part of the new morality of the ’60s and ’70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of ‘likability’ hasn’t been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it’s been a centuries-long battle for respectability.
Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we’re washing away their sins yet.
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism – something that’s thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Now that I’m over sixty I’m veering toward respectability.
I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry.
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game’s respectability rested.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.
It’s time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
In fairness, Latin America’s elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That’s spoken like a true loser.
