Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing…
— V.S. Naipaul
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..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with…
— Stephen Covey
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At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world…
— Thomas Friedman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and…
— William Lyon Phelps
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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
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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
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
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