“The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.” MenValuesFightingLeftLosesAnimalPoorRichWallRich ManPoor Man Author:R. A. Salvatore
“Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.” MenNeedsSelfDesireValuesHateLosesBreakAtheismWallPromiseTheeCurseSelf RespectSuspectsCurtainsThyselfProfitableHypocrite Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著 Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” KnowsFeelsWritingWellsChildrenLongCountryStoriesUseHandsSeemsAbleMovingValuesKnownTreeStreetsWallFitWalkingElementsLong TimeToolsFamiliarEaseVocationMisunderstood Author:Natalia Ginzburg
“Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.” HomeValuesNationsBehindsLibertySacrificeWallProudDown AndDefenseCherishMentalitySuspicionMistrustSiege Author:Barack Obama
“Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.” IfsThinkingLooksBigsValuesEconomyTroubleStreetsCreationWallCreatingGreedSmall BusinessBig BusinessAmerican EconomyCreating Value Author:Robert Herjavec
“On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!” FirstsMeanEnoughTodayLastsTimeValuesDiesChristianityMankindWallEternalLettersInstinctFollowingRevengeCurseImmortalWhy NotCalamityLast DayPoisonousDepravitySecretiveIndictment Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.” ThinkingDifferentValuesCultureCreativeWallIndustryEnglandSouthScotlandHadrianCreative Industries Author:Sara Sheridan