“This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.” PoliticalValuesWonderPolicyComfortableWeaknessSkinsIncludingCoreVotersSupporterRomneyFlipCore ValuesFlip Flops Author:Ron Fournier
“Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDifferentValuesAttentionParticularRacismSkinsImportanceBonesColourAustralianDespisedMarrow Author:George Brandis
“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.” PeopleIfsHumansMeanCertainValuesHumanityBlackHuman BeingsWhiteQualitySawsColorRedAdvantageSkinsBrownHallsWarmthBlack PeopleFadedTextiles Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.” IfsThinkingLittlesHelpingCertainValuesSongChoicesChallengesMy OwnCreatingSkinsWeightGreekInternalsRitualImaginaryCypriots Author:Andrew Bird
“For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.” PeopleLongProblemPastValuesOrderWishWhitePoorEffortMovementSkinsRadicalWhitenessDisillusion Author:David Roediger
“Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.” TryingHeartSoulEnoughLastsValuesDiesStrongWaterBornChallengesSkyLove YouReadyLoversElementsWeaknessSkinsFlamesButtonsSoarStrong EnoughTriggersMysticMockBaptizedBaptized In Author:Marianne Williamson
“We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.” MenValuesBlackWhiteGayAdultsSkinsBlack SkinWhite SkinGay Love Author:Charlize Theron
“It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f - kin' concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below [their] belt and feeling hardships, to grow into [their] skin and feel confident within [themselves] and to feel the value of who [they] are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.” ThinkingMenWorldFeelsYearsFeelingsBeautifulLife IsValuesGrowsConceptsBuiltSkinsHardshipIronicBeautiful ThingsBelts Author:Charlize Theron
“I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.” KindHomeSchoolValuesHouseBehindsBreakEqualSkinsThievesStolenItemsSlick Author:Holly Black
“A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.” ValuesBusinessCompanyFocusSkinsTransformationMethodCorporationsShedOrganismsComplacencyLiving OrganismsLean Manufacturing Author:Andy Grove