#values

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#around #ball player #basketball #basketball player #blessed

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#batman #compassion #courage #embody #family

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dropped #explore #fairly #first #form

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#become #block #building #building block #constantly

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences. ↗

— John Pomfret

#best #between #connect #differences #fact

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#firm #how #knows #make #open

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#attempt #certain #christian #erosion #expunge

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. ↗

— Terry Southern

#beard #certain #i #known #long

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#amongst #because #bump #core #felt