When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
~By Marilyn Manson ~
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
~By Warren Buffett ~
As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.
~By Jim Doyle ~
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
~By John Tuley ~
Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
~By Helen Prejean ~
The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
~By Michael Burgess ~
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
~By Fernand Leger ~
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~By John McCain ~
The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
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 ~
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
~By David F. Houston ~
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 ~
While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.
~By Ron Schiller ~
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.
~By Bill Toomey ~
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
~By Rob Bishop ~
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
~By Joe Baca ~
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 ~
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
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 ~
You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
~By Alex Lowe ~
Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.
~By Trent Lott ~
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I will always support legislation which respects and values life.
~By Gresham Barrett ~
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
~By Howard Staunton ~
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 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 conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
~By Susie Bright ~
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
~By Robert Rainy ~
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
~By Ezra Pound ~
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.
~By Mike Simpson ~
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
~By Edward Hopper ~
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
~By Mary Astell ~
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
~By Mike Figgis ~
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 ~
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
~By James L. Brooks ~
To be is to be the value of a variable.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
~By David Ricardo ~
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 ~
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
~By Jim Rohn ~
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
~By Michael I. Rostovtzeff ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
~By Dennis Prager ~
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.
~By John W. Snow ~
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
~By Paul Scofield ~
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 ~
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
~By Bob Weir ~
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 ~
Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
~By David Friedman ~
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.
~By Thomas Menino ~
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
~By Laura Ingraham ~
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
~By Amos Oz ~
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
~By Matthew Hale ~
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 ~
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
~By Bill Shuster ~
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 ~
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~By Robert Graves ~
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
~By Dinah Shore ~
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
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 ~
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