Quotes About Worth

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

Nothing comes without a price.

About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

En su mayoría, las mujeres parecen estar convencidas de que, cada vez que abren los muslos, tienen que usar el marco del melodrama para lograr que el hombre reconozca su valor. Pero en realidad, esta patética e inocente ilusión convierte a las mujeres en víctimas de la violación espiritual, unilateral.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

No matter how much television dramas go on singing the cloying praises of the family, it is the outside world, full of enemies and lechers, that passes on a man's worth, pays his wages, and guarantees him the right to live.

When people are consistently treated with the utmost respect, they learn to feel worthy of reverence; they realize that they have absolute value. So

No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word 'love' in it.

Ye're playing fer the house? But ye won it just a month ago! Why,this land is worth more than yer estate near Stirling! Now that he'd toured the land and knew the true condition of the house, Dougal was tempted to agree. The deed to MacFarlane House was worth far more than he'd originally thought. Shelton shook his head. Ye're moonstruck, me lord. Moonstruck and fairy-pinched.

the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.

John had learned a long time ago that the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

It [bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade.

It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and feasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

Trust isn't a gift, Cameron. You earn it, and it's not cheap.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.