Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue…
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps…
— Thrity Umrigar
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To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift…
— Terry Goodkind
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We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
— James E. Faust
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no…
— Graham Greene
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Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
— Milan Kundera
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One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and…
— Hillary Clinton
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Gold is the corpse of value...
— Neal Stephenson
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When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
— Thomas Merton
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values…
— Jeannette Walls
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by…
— Ayn Rand
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If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable…
— Pat Conroy
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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
— Elvis Presley
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
— Flannery O'Connor
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that…
— Alfred de Musset
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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