Respectful Tone Quotes

I respect Sen. Elliott and expect that she will be a strong opponent.

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone. I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry. I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

In an Inaguaral Address, it’s important not to kick the predecessor.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

I have tremendous respect for coach Gary Kubiak. I love that guy.

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

I myself have the utmost respect for Coach Coughlin.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.