Quotes About Values

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

Saya memang suka pada topi-topi serta benda-benda yang cantik, tapi saya tidak boleh menggadaikan masa depan saya untuk membeli barang-barang seperti itu.

An diesem Abend drehte sich das Gespräch um die unendlichen, glorreichen, immensen Perspektiven der neuen Kommunikationsformen und insbesondere des Internet. Charles war nicht damit einverstanden: Hinter dem technischen Flitterwerk, sagte er, lauere eine neue Art der Entfremdung, die nur zu noch größerem Konsumverhalten und weiterem Verlust an Realitätsbewusstsein und menschlichen Werten beitragen werde.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente:

We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The task therefore was not only to denounce this supposed kinship between classical German culture and National Socialism, and show what this supposed 'Germanity' had falsified, but also to emphasize the extent to which the classical German heritage was indissociable from those values now trampled on by the Nazis: a certain belief in freedom, justice and democracy.

Literature was the first sector of German culture to be completely subjected to the 'new National Socialist values', and its policy towards books became, as Thomas Mann declared, the very symbol of the regime: for all Europe, the Third Reich would remain the country where books were burned.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Because arguments require an expenditure of time and energy, we need to consider what is worth arguing about and what is not.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Authenticity is becoming more important among teens and millennials. They're more jaded as a generation.

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right.

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Remember who you are. - Kim Clark Dean of Harvard Business School.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

We will flush greed out of our system or be flushed away by it.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.