Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me.… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
We all share some commonalities with the states we come from and where we come from on the political spectrum. There's a… — Conner Eldridge Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become… — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values. The person who… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The key to a great life lies in shifting your focus from accumulation to contribution. The old saying "He who gathers the… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image