All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
~By David Attenborough ~
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
~By Dean Inge ~
So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.
~By Dick Butkus ~
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
~By Robert Hall ~
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~By Ovid ~
I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
~By Oded Fehr ~
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
~By Ron Paul ~
It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.
~By Jim Wallace ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
~By Dawn French ~
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
~By Lorin Maazel ~
Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
~By Bill Dixon ~
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
~By Glenn Frey ~
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.
~By Joe Grant ~
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
~By Van Morrison ~
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
~By Claude Shannon ~
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
~By Ben Stiller ~
The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
~By Elia Kazan ~
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
~By Joe Wilson ~
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
~By Tiger Woods ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
~By Al Sharpton ~
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
~By Hayao Miyazaki ~
I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."
~By Claude Pepper ~
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
~By John Drinkwater ~
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
~By Hu Shih ~
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
~By Taylor Swift ~
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
~By Brit Hume ~
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
~By Jon Corzine ~
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
~By Chester A. Arthur ~
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~By Patricia Ireland ~
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
~By Patricia Velasquez ~
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
~By John McCain ~
Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
~By Alex Lowe ~
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
~By Seth Low ~
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?
~By Todd Rundgren ~
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
~By Herbert Read ~
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
~By Studs Terkel ~
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
~By Henri Matisse ~
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
~By Carl Sagan ~
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
~By George Mason ~
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
~By Herbert Read ~
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
~By Claire Danes ~
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
~By Bobby Orr ~
You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
~By Kofi Annan ~
I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
~By Danny Aiello ~
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
~By David Ricardo ~
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
~By William Greider ~
So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
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