Famous Quotes - Tags - Values
- ... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less... More
- ...do not throw your pearls before swine... More
- ...what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God. More
- A different world can be created or re-created—but not until we stop enshrining the economic... More
- A man’s real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those... More
- A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are. More
- A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken. More
- All earthly things is but vanity:
Beauty, Strength, and Discretion do man... More
- All the sciences are now under an obligation to prepare for the future task of philosopher, which... More
- And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and... More
- As a parent, you can play three important roles in teaching your children about sex. As a model... More
- As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in... More
- Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children... More
- Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money... More
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves... More
- Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of... More
- Family values are a little like family vacations—subject to changeable weather and remembered... More
- First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are,... More
- For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? More
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. More
- Forbede us thing, and that desiren we;
Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee.
With... More
- Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on... More
- Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine—
A man’s a man for a’ that! More
- Gold has a price, but people are priceless. More
- He could walk, or rather turn about in his little garden, and feel more solid happiness from the... More
- He was one whose glory was an inner glory, one who placed culture above prosperity, fairness... More
- I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. More
- I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise,... More
- I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our... More
- I hate your people that will sooner tolerate a soul than a gown that is awry, and will judge a... More
- I hold all human life dearly, Stearne, especially my own. More
- I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens,... More
- I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money. More
- If mothers are to be successful in achieving their child-rearing goals, they must have the inner... More
- If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus’ material was... More
- If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people’s hair, or dream up... More
- In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the... More
- In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next,... More
- In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to... More
- In this world of overrated pleasures,
Of underrated treasures. More
- In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the... More
- In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power... More
- Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships. More
- It is not easy to construct by mere scientific synthesis a foolproof system which will lead our... More
- I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. More
- Judgments, value judgments concerning life, whether for or against it, can in the end never be... More
- Kent. This is nothing, Fool.
Fool. The ‘tis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer, you gave... More
- Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading... More
- Life every man holds dear, but the dear man
Holds honor far more precious-dear than life. More
- Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out... More
- Local ginger is not considered hot. More
- Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were... More
- Money has no moral opinions. More
- My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World.... More
- Nay, had she been true,
If heaven would make me such another world
Of one entire and... More
- Nichols [the money lender]: “In this sharing and living as one family that you talk so much... More
- Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism... More
- No one can serve two masters... More
- Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the... More
- Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. More
- Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those... More
- Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves.... More
- Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the... More
- Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience... More
- Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it. More
- Ruskin’s counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred... More
- Sam Spade: You are a liar.
Brigid: I am. I’ve always been a liar. More
- So long, you bastard.
It isn’t size that counts so much as the way things are arranged. More
- So we may never
Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us
And lived on a... More
- Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he... More
- Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the... More
- Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. More
- That which costs little is less valued. More
- The first place he went into was the Royal Exchange .... where men of all ages and all nations... More
- The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of... More
- The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or... More
- The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that... More
- The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. More
- The real genres: good and bad. More
- The rebellion is against time pollution, the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth... More
- The taking of a little prize,
Do not a single heart dispise. More
- The two opposing values—”good and bad” and “good and evil”Mhave waged a terrible battle... More
- The unexamined life is not worth living for man. More
- The word “obligation” is very seldom in my thoughts, and consequently very seldom is it... More
- There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and... More
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. More
- Things obtained too easily are regarded too lightly. More
- Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say:... More
- Thou must tell me to one penny what I am worth. More
- Though pedantry denies,
It’s plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While... More
- To be faced with what so-and-so’s mother lets him do, or what the teacher said in class today... More
- Two big questions present themselves to every parent in one form or another: “What kind of... More
- Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein... More
- Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it;... More
- Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the... More
- Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not... More
- Very useless things we neglect, till they become old and useless enough to be put in Museums: and... More
- We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value. More
- We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a... More
- We have fought too much rhetoric and red tape to be lulled and comforted by a paid political... More
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