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Quotes About Regard

Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person
~ Constance Friday
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~ John Strachan
When, therefore, those feelings and judgment declare the pleasures derived from the higher faculties to be preferable in kind, apart from the question of intensity, to those of which the animal nature, disjoined from the higher faculties, is susceptible, they are entitled on this subject to the same regard.
~ John Stuart Mill
Nothing is more natural to human beings, nor, up to a certain point in cultivation, more universal, than to estimate the pleasures and pains of others as deserving of regard exactly in proportion to their likeness to ourselves.
~ John Stuart Mill
A new tranquillity had come between them. It was a quietness that was like the beginning of love; and almost without thinking, Stoner knew why it had come. They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.
~ John Williams
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.
~ Barack Obama
Many others speak deferentially to me.
~ George S. Clason
It should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention.... Our intention is to crack life open for just a second.
~ George Saunders
Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.
~ George Saunders
I wish you did return my regard, he said. More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
~ Georgette Heyer
I can assure you that during my tenure as his employee, Bob Ney was the hardest working man in Ohio and Washington. I can further assure you the work that he did and the decisions he made were done with integrity and the highest regard for his office and those he served.
~ Corey Lewandowski
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
~ Sean O'Casey
Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakeable joy.
~ Martin Heidegger
The man in black smiled. Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies? I thought we had been. But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
~ Stephen King
The man in black smiled. Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies? I thought we had been. But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
~ Stephen King
One design of God in the gospel is to bring us to make God the object of our undivided respect, that he may engross our regard every way, that whatever natural inclination there is in our souls, he may be the centre of it; that God may be all in all.
~ Jonathan Edwards
I was always puzzled by the combination of Dodd's apparently high personal regard for me and his willingness to blast the Federal Reserve, as if I had had nothing to do with the Fed's decisions and policies.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
~ Tom Lehrer
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I can only say that I've received such love and regard from Indians that I have no words to express it. It only makes me wish to return and work more.
~ Saba Qamar
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
~ William Shenstone
Salman is my favourite actor. In fact, I look upon the entire Khan family with great regard.
~ Akshaye Khanna
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
~ Win Butler
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu