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 ~
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
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 ~
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
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 ~
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
~By Laura Ingraham ~
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
~By Barack Obama ~
We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
~By Michele Bachmann ~
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
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 ~
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
~By Max Bill ~
I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
~By Rick Perry ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.
~By John Linder ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
~By Liv Ullman ~
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
~By Nick Clooney ~
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
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 ~
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
~By Jack Kingston ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
~By Terry Southern ~
I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
~By Danny Aiello ~
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
I will always support legislation which respects and values life.
~By Gresham Barrett ~
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
~By Edward Levi ~
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
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 ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
~By Andrew Bernstein ~
I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.
~By Julie Walters ~
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
~By Robert Menendez ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 represent the views and the values of the people of the district.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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 ~
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
~By Ralph Ransom ~
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 ~
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
~By Joe Moore ~
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 ~
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
~By Ignazio Silone ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
~By Bridget Riley ~
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 ~
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
~By Tony Benn ~
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
~By Elisha Gray ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
~By Rebecca West ~
When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
~By Peter Hain ~
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 ~
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
~By Joe Baca ~
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
~By John Pomfret ~
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
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 ~
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
~By Ernie Banks ~
The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.
~By Claudia Kennedy ~
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 ~
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
~By Rick Perry ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
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 ~
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
~By Wes Borland ~
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
~By Susie Bright ~
Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
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