Quotes About Values

Just because it is legal to do, it does not make it an ethical, honorable, moral or professional choice.

It was a gift," Angelo said. "From a friend." "A friend does not give a gun as a gift." Angelo walked into the room and sat down next to his father. "This one does," he said. "And what will you do with such a gift?" "It will remind me," Angelo said in a near whisper. "Of what?" Paolino's eyes searched the boy's face. "Of what I am without it, Papa.

Han enseñado a la gente a necesitar demasiadas fruslerías. Me temo que el noventa y cinco por ciento de la población de Europa occidental aceptaría la destrucción del planeta a cien años vista si ése fuera el precio de poder seguir teniendo lavadora.

Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

The fact that she had more clothes to sleep in than to go out in said a lot about her

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.   —Dave Barry

Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong. He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. And this was wrong.

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis.

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.

I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life.

you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts.