Quotes About Bad Values

#1. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone. - Author: Sergio Troncoso

#2. I'm not that careful with cars. - Author: Elizabeth Hurley

#3. Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... - Author: Muse

#4. It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers. - Author: Philip Kitcher

#5. It is a prerequisite, then, for someone to trust the culture in which they work to share the values and beliefs of that culture. Without it, that employee, for example, is simply a bad fit and likely to work only for self-gain without consideration for the greater good. - Author: Simon Sinek

#6. You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! Can't you see, it's just a terrible vicious circle! - Author: Paul Murray

#7. Few value just how fragile a person's psyche is. All those pieces, both the good and bad, the values, the lessons, the beliefs that construct us - they're all woven into the fabric of our being. Once you start pulling out the first thread, the entire person is in danger of unravelling. - Author: Jessica Dotta

#8. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul. - Author: Vivek Wadhwa

#9. Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong ... The answer to bad religion is better religion
prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology. - Author: Jim Wallis

#10. GOOD: is when those values that we rate desirable are pertaining
BAD: is when those same values are wanting. - Author: Jeff Tikari

#11. Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#12. not sure if it was compliment, or an insult, or a complisult; - Author: Penny Reid

#13. Book values have some good and some bad features. - Author: Walter Schloss

#14. Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. - Author: Gary Oldman

#15. My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned. - Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#16. Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold ... Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends. - Author: Laurence Steinberg

#17. Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example. - Author: Attila The Hun

#18. Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer. - Author: Francis Quarles

#19. We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes. - Author: Joe Scarborough

#20. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines. - Author: Herman Wouk

#21. I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. - Author: Rodney Dangerfield

#22. The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. - Author: Robert Lipsyte

#23. Without action, you aren't going anywhere. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think. - Author: Dan Groat

#25. [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death. - Author: Caryl Rivers

#26. Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. - Author: John Grisham

#27. Who drops a postcard in someone's lap? I'm not sure who I think I am. Carmen Sandiego? That girl from Serendipity? - Author: Lily Paradis

#28. All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives. - Author: Colin Powell

#29. I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark - Author: Suzanne Collins

#30. She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement - a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive. - Author: Aspen Matis

#31. I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years. - Author: Edmund White

#32. I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007. - Author: Jamie Bamber

#33. Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead. - Author: Mac Anderson

#34. We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good. - Author: Anna Politkovskaya

#35. I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips. - Author: Melanie Brown

#36. But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway? - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#37. The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. - Author: Rachel Cusk

#38. What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it. - Author: Janet Burroway

#39. I think a true writer takes whatever time he or she needs to get a poem or story or book right. If you want to be a storyteller, take the time to get it right. - Author: DeWanna Pace