Regard Quotes
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The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
Denis Johnston
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Charles Dickens
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Abraham Lincoln
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
Sigmund Freud
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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
William Faulkner
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When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.
Eric Partridge
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Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
Blaise Pascal
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I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.
William Joyce
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
Ernst Junger
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
Honore de Balzac
