Value Quotes

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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The… — Roland Barthes
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the… — Joseph Campbell
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God. — Jim Elliot
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the… — Roland Barthes
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder… — Andrew Sullivan
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too,… — Kate DiCamillo
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those… — H P Lovecraft
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for… — Arthur C. Clarke
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody… — Doris Lessing
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I donâ€™t go along with that. The memories I value most, I donâ€™t ever see… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said… — Sarah Dessen
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. — Jeanette Winterson
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really… — Gary D. Schmidt
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then… — William Shakespeare
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.… — Hermann Hesse
Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing — James Clavell
We are accustomed to repeating the clichÃ©, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… — Michael Chabon
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and… — Wendell Berry

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