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Letter "V" » Value
«Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writing about.»
«In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India»
«If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.»
Author: Rita Dove
| About:
Celebrity,
Scientists,
Value
| Keywords:
celebrities, drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, In the Shadows, sun-drenched, The Shadows, thinkers
«It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner
| About:
Constitution,
Value
| Keywords:
amendment, embodied, expedient, Expedients, framer, Framers
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love,
Value
| Keywords:
Considering, exchange, favorable, market
«Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Judgement,
Value
| Keywords:
concerning, consideration, judgments, Last Judgment, last resort, resort, stupidities, symptoms, The Last Judgment, The Last Resort, value judgment
«He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Loyalty,
Value
«If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Reality,
Value
| Keywords:
Back To Reality, foundations, go back, go forward, hinge, hinges, hinge on, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, values
«In a false quarrel there is no true valour.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Value
| Keywords:
quarrel, valour
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