“Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.” WayRealityGivenWonderMysteryHonestRegardResponseFinalsGrantedRadicalConfrontationGrandeurAmazement Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.” WellsSoulEyeHonestRegardVisualsOrgans Author:Hosea Ballou
“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.” PeopleKnowsWholeActionChanceHonestDependsRegardFortuneNeighborWhole LifeEsteemReputationMeritAcquireHarvestGood FortuneUsefulnessProximity Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.” IfsRealHelpingUsePainSportsHonestAskingRegardBeing HonestAsking For Help Author:R.A. Dickey
“I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.” FirstsTwoBodyBeliefCompassionStepsKindnessHonestAwarenessRegardWingsFirst StepsRecognizingKindness And Compassion Author:Tara Brach
“I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.” IfsShouldStillsMomentsWrittenHonestRegardThat Moment Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?” PeopleUsedWiseHonestJudgingHabitBenefitsAskingRegardCassius Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.” ChildrenArtNatureHonestNew YorkRegard Author:Frank Moore Colby
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services” WellsGovernmentLeaderHonestMediaMembersCriticismRegardCleanAlliesWitheringWilting Author:Corazon Aquino