There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. - Ellen Goodman
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. - Ellen Goodman
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. - Joshua Leonard
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. - Raoul Vaneigem
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. - Michael Servetus
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. - Richard P. Feynman
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value. - Guido van Rossum
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you. - Morrie Schwartz
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. - Gary Gygax
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. - Pierre de Coubertin
The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life. - Kinky Friedman
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else. - Carroll O'Connor
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. - Elliot Richardson
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. - Dian Fossey
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything. - George Weinberg
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. - T. S. Eliot
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. - Doug Coupland
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer. - Michael K. Simpson
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? - Don DeLillo
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. - William F. Buckley, Jr.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. - Ben Elton
Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value. - Phil Condit
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. - David Ansen
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. - Stephen Cambone
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. - Sandra Oh