Aspirational Values Quotes & Sayings

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As neoliberalism wages war on public goods and the very idea of a public, including citizenship beyond membership, it dramatically thins public life without killing politics. Struggles remain over power, hegemonic values, resources, and future trajectories. This persistence of politics amid the destruction of public life and especially educated public life, combined with the marketization of the political sphere, is part of what makes contemporary politics peculiarly unappealing and toxic - full of ranting and posturing, emptied of intellectual seriousness, pandering to an uneducated and manipulable electorate and a celebrity-and-scandal-hungry corporate media. Neoliberalism generates a condition of politics absent democratic institutions that would support a democratic public and all that such a public represents at its best: informed passion, respectful deliberation, aspirational sovereignty, sharp containment of powers that would overrule or undermine it. — Wendy Brown

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you've ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life. — Chuck Palahniuk

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for. — Brene Brown

We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade." Calpurnia — Harper Lee

You must be hungry," said Gabriel. "I was," replied Sam. "My appetite just disappeared. — Phillip W. Simpson

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with. — Eric Abetz

Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies. — Goo Goo Dolls

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.] — Horace

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint.
Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno. — Anais Nin

silence is the most intolerable of answers. — Mason Cooley

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time. — Henry Ford

I will never let someone else's opinion define my reality. — Steve Maraboli

Good advice is hard to find and even harder to accept. Accept it anyway. One day, you'll wake up and wish you had done it sooner. — Kevin Breel