If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.
~By George Soros ~
I represent the views and the values of the people of the district.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
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 ~
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
~By Robert Kocharian ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
~By Bridget Riley ~
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 ~
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
~By Sam Walton ~
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 ~
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
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 ~
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
~By Mike Pence ~
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 ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
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 ~
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
~By Rebecca West ~
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
~By Mike Ferguson ~
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
~By Anita Baker ~
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 has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
~By Kay Granger ~
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
~By Harry Reid ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
~By Jack Scalia ~
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
~By Steve Blake ~
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
~By Howard Dean ~
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 ~
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 ~
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
~By Norman Thomas ~
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
~By Peter MacKay ~
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 ~
Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
~By John Howard ~
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~By Bill Frist ~
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
~By Tony Benn ~
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
~By Artur Davis ~
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
~By Jim Wallis ~
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
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 ~
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
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 ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
~By Major Owens ~
My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.
~By Kathy Ireland ~
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 think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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 ~
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. ~
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
~By Charles Schumer ~
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
~By Wally Lamb ~
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 ~
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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 ~
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
~By Anna Lindh ~
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
~By William Morris Hunt ~
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
~By Patricia Velasquez ~
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
~By Jim Wallis ~
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
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 ~
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 ~
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
~By Lawrence Kohlberg ~
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 ~
I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.
~By David Axelrod ~
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~By Sidney Hook ~
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
~By Aesop ~
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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