Values Quotes

6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one… — Tom Stoppard
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,… — Henry James
(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire… — Richard Matheson
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own… — Thomas Merton
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore. — Jonathan Safran Foer
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part… — Joseph Campbell
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,… — Marcus Aurelius
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the… — Leo Tolstoy
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint — Brent Weeks
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. — Philip Yancey
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and… — Lee Strobel
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made… — Stephen King
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with… — David Foster Wallace
Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the… — D. H. Lawrence
Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value… — Richelle Mead
With a woman he's crazy about, he'll put in all the overtime in the world. He'll be doing things for you, he'll be considerate, he'll… — Sherry Argov
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree… — Aberjhani
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love… — Gary Snyder
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave… — James Patterson
Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .… — Margaret Atwood
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are… — Sidney Poitier
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew… — James Joyce

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