“End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.” WorldEndsEnoughStoriesValuesFoundMy OwnPleasureChangedCreatingOrdinaryHotRingsGrantedSurprisingShowersEnd Of The WorldOrdinary Things Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.” WorldValuesChangedIslamSeptemberSeptember 11Spotlight Author:Karen Armstrong
“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.” MenWantEarthValuesGivenCitiesConditionsFieldsChangedComfortOceanLaborMiseryRaisedForestsShipsPlentyDesertCoveredPossessedSavagesEleganceBarbarismTalismans Author:John Ramsay McCulloch
“It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.” YearsSeemsTodayLastsValuesMoneyCarObjectsChangedCreditYesterdayCardsLast YearPursesCredit CardSuperstarNickelsVenerationDorkPiggyPiggy Bank Book:Making the Most of Your Money Source: Making the Most of Your Money
“I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.” PeopleThinkingValuesEmotionChangedBrokenPatternsThoughts And Emotions Author:Tony Robbins
“Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.” MeanValuesGirlChangedMoralityErasNaughtyNaughty Girl Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by
“. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.” LittlesStillsHardFacesValuesNamesLanguageNationsCitiesNew YorkChangedHard WorkAccomplishmentDecentNeighborhoodValue Of Hard Work Author:David Dinkins