regard quotes

  • I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

    - Richard Reid Ingrams
      Referring to libel suits against him. Quoted in The Guardian, 30  Jul.

  • 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.

    - Da i bh|  dh OŁ    Bruadair
      The Plough and the  Stars, act1.

  •    Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness,and youwill likely behappymuchofthetime.

    - M(organ) Scott Peck
      The Different Drum.

  • 'The firm'a proud Victorian word.It evokes the lost sense of Victorian regard for the pride of people in their daily trade.

    - Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
    'Betjeman', in the NewYorker, 24 Jun.

  •    Unconditional positive regard.

    - Carl Ransom Rogers
    c.1950  The slogan of the Rogerian counselling movement.

  • It isnot fromthebenevolence ofthebutcher, thebrewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

    - Adam Smith
      An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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