Respected

Famous quotes containing the word respected:

“But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)