Quotes About Values

I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then.

Some folks think they are luxuries,' I said, 'but at Ingleside we think they are necessities.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. That

She wanted all her boys to be gentlemen, she said.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

There are some people, sez I, that can't hear anything because of the jingle in their pocket.

Si le dejaran elegir, ¿qué preferiría tener: una hermosura divina, una inteligencia deslumbrante o una bondad angelical?

I'm getting quite expert at marketing. It's better fun than flirting, concluded Phil gravely. Everything is going up scandalously, sighed Stella. Never mind. Thank goodness air and salvation are still free, said Aunt Jamesina.

There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae ? Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live. Augustus McCrae

Though a Kickapoo, the man had respect for the old ways. He behaved like the old ones behaved; the old ones, too, would go to any lengths to learn some useful fact about the animals or the birds. They would figure that someone might need to know those facts; they themselves might not need to, but their children might, or their grandchildren might.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living," Augustus said. "I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We

A person, Bobby would tell his oldest daughter Kathleen, could be judged by the enemies he made.

It's not WHAT you do for a living that brings career satisfaction. It's WHO you get to be while doing what you do that does.

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.

Si primero es lo primero, el amor va antes que nada. Y si primero es el deber y luego el placer, amar es nuestro deber y placer. No hay nada antes ni más allá que el amor.

En la familia De la Garza se podían perdonar algunas cosas, pero nunca la desobediencia ni el cuestionamiento de las actitudes de los padres.

Later, she also saw that innocence need be nothing of the kind, and that conventional morality might have its own impurity.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.