Regnery Park Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee. — Fred Ikle

Civility costs nothing and buys everything — Mary Wortley Montagu

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that. — Terry Pratchett

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. — Robert Falcon Scott

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. — John Olsen

I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse. — Loren Eiseley

A good systems thinker, particularly in an organizational setting, is someone who can see four levels operating simultaneously: events, patterns of behavior, systems, and mental models. — Art Kleiner

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. — Petrarch

Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes. — Amanda Leigh

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community. — Tea Leoni

Death
a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. — Marcus Aurelius

I just meant touching me might feel uncomfortable. It's a little like chewing on tin foil. Feels unpleasant but isn't really a problem. — Donna Augustine