Quotes of: Moral-values Keyword

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. St...

Caleb Deschanel

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under...

Michael Leunig

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

Robert Pinsky

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

1984

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Anthropology of an American Girl

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Atlas Shrugged

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

The Heart of the Matter

Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Reflections

What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

The Restful Mind

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Rumors

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Siddhartha

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey