Regard Quotes

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.