In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
~By Bridget Riley ~
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
~By Alex Lowe ~
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
~By Sai Baba ~
Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.
~By Phil Condit ~
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
~By Gamaliel Bailey ~
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~By Robert Graves ~
Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
~By Phillip Noyce ~
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
~By Mike Pence ~
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
~By John Tuley ~
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
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 promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~By Michelangelo ~
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
~By Michael Graves ~
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
~By Buddy Ebsen ~
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Value people on their potential, not on their history.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
~By Elia Kazan ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.
~By Robert Fortune ~
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
~By David F. Houston ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
~By Michael Burgess ~
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
~By Peter Coyote ~
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
~By Mark Foley ~
The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
~By Ernest Renan ~
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
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 ~
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
~By Daniel Morgan ~
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 ~
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
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 ~
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
~By William Scranton ~
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 ~
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
~By Alan Perlis ~
We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
~By Dean Inge ~
A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
~By John Boehner ~
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
~By Richard Grant ~
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
~By Rick Santorum ~
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
~By Evan Bayh ~
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~By Peter De Vries ~
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 true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
~By Richard Gere ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
~By William Trevor ~
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
~By John Guare ~
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 ~
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
~By Barack Obama ~
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
~By Winthrop Rockefeller ~
You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
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