Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
~By Jim Rohn ~
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Freedom is a universal value.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
~By Alice S. Rossi ~
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
~By Fritz Todt ~
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
~By Shane Warne ~
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.
~By Harry Reid ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
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 ~
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
~By George Chapman ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
~By Susan Powter ~
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
~By Alex Lowe ~
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
~By Alan Perlis ~
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
~By John Tuley ~
I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.
~By Kelli White ~
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves.
~By Eda J. Le Shan ~
And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
~By James Thurber ~
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
~By Dian Fossey ~
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~By Robert Altman ~
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
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 ~
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
~By James Dobson ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
~By Chanakya ~
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.
~By George Soros ~
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
~By Norman Thomas ~
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
~By Joan Blades ~
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
~By Daniel Petrie ~
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
~By James Hilton ~
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
~By Dean Inge ~
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
~By William Temple ~
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
~By Steve Forbes ~
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
~By Ezra Pound ~
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
~By Ezra Pound ~
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
~By George Soros ~
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
~By George H. W. Bush ~
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
~By Elia Kazan ~
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.
~By Shelby Foote ~
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
~By Josie Maran ~
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
~By Dave Thomas ~
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
~By Georg Brandes ~
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
~By Lars von Trier ~
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
~By Winona Ryder ~
To be is to be the value of a variable.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
~By Wally Lamb ~
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
~By Mary Astell ~
Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.
~By John Linder ~
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
~By George Aiken ~
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 ~
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
~By Ovid ~
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
~By Camille Paglia ~
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.
~By Jim Costa ~
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.
~By Howard Dean ~
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
~By Thomas R. Cech ~
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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