#val

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. ↗

— John Green

#also #any #authors #books #desire

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#changing #different #different person #foundation #grow

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#cost #helps #led #values #you

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#absence #confiscation #gold #gold standard #inflation

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#away #catastrophe #deal #energy #environment

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#oppressed #revolution

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#festival #guide #joy #oppressed #path