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I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. -- Michael Gove
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -- Albert Einstein
The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence. -- Mwai Kibaki
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. -- George Eliot
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. -- Joseph Conrad
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. -- Mark Haddon
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. -- Douglas MacArthur
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. -- Leonard Cohen
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. -- Matthew Scully
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. -- James Surowiecki
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. -- Alvin Dark
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. -- Arabella Weir
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. -- John Burnside
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air. -- Dennis Prager
They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach. -- Ernst Zundel
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. -- Henry Lawson
My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. -- Yoenis Cespedes
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. -- Lafcadio Hearn
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. -- Henry Flynt
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper. -- Tom Clancy
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. -- Alexander Pope
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect. -- Wayne Pacelle
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. -- Paul Hoffman
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. -- Ansel Adams
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. -- Ambrose Bierce
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors. -- Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. -- Gail Jones
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded. -- Randal Marlin
Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration. -- Jeff Cohen
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to. -- Booker T. Washington
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it. -- Cesar Chavez
Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity. -- Tim Field
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. -- Matthew Scully
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God. -- Johannes Kepler
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. -- Naomi Wolf
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one -- Michael Davitt
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. -- Douglas MacArthur
It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise? -- Confucius
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment. -- John Carroll

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