Misplaced Values Quotes & Sayings

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies ... — Joseph Conrad

It's really about being pleased with yourself. — Janet Jackson

Values What we value is what we love and assign importance to. Often we do not take responsibility for what we value. We are caught up in valuing the approval of men rather than the approval of God (John 12:43); because of this misplaced value, we miss out on life. We think that power, riches, and pleasure will satisfy our deepest longing, which is really for love. When — Henry Cloud

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician. — Alastair Reynolds

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to the people who made up the world I knew, I could not attach my signature. I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love of the thing-in-itself - not a philosophic attachment, but a passionate, desperately passionate hunger, as if in this discarded, worthless thing which everyone ignored there was contained the secret of my own regeneration. — Henry Miller

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. — Jessica Park

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have "misplaced" their values. — Donald L. Hicks

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings. — Swami Vivekananda

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world. — Katy Perry