Quotes About Values

but she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Có má»™t th? không tuân theo nguyên t?c s? Ä'ông. ?ó là lÆ°Æ¡ng tâm con ng??i

Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.

Morality, as I understand it, has to do particularly with how we ought to conduct ourselves in our relations with others.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Aomame said, It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.

What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second- or third-rate sofas in their homes. I put little trust in such people.

Lo correcto, ¿qué diablos significa eso? ¿Me lo puedes explicar? A decir verdad, no sé muy bien qué es lo correcto. Lo que no es correcto sí lo sé, pero lo correcto, ¿qué es?

The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

To work in an organization whose value system is unacceptable or incompatible with one's own condemns a person both to frustration and to nonperformance.

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.

He's no John Walton.

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist