Quotes About Values

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

no, i don't, i told him. i'm not sure that it matters what you care about. maybe it's the caring itself that matters.

Miss Cameron, you are quite something, you know. Marriage doesn't mean a damn thing to you. You don't, in the least, mind selling your own soul for Cameron Hall. But what of mine? What if I were in love with someone?

he didn't believe much in funerals—or in massive monuments to the dead, caskets worth thousands and thousands of dollars or any other such thing.

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

A rich man has no need of character.

How did you teach your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

How did you teach your your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

No doubt he is a man of principle,' said Kamren. 'But they are the wrong principles.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

What, then, is Berkshire's moat? The answer: Berkshire's distinctive corporate culture. Berkshire spent the last five decades acquiring a group of wholly owned subsidiaries of bewildering variety but united by a set of distinctive core values. The result is a corporate culture unlike any other. And this is Berkshire's moat.

Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Todas las acciones están sujetas a órdenes», «Nunca hay que robar al pueblo», «Jamás seas egoísta o injusto»;

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.