Quotes About Worth

Que os hace tanta gracia? -pregunto ella desconcertada. -La mercancía se ve, se pesa, se palpa y, si es necesario, se prueba y hasta se huele -Explico Loxan con cierto tono burlón-. Puedes valorarla y pedir algo a cambio. Pero la información... -hizo un gesto vago con la mano, como si quisiera atrapar el aire que respiraban- no se puede medir de la misma manera. ¿Cuanto vale? ¿Lo sabes tu, acaso?

This, this little home," he said, "was worth all of it.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance.

He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.

It wouldn't be easy with this man. He had trouble written all over him. But there was something else too... There was something in his eyes that gave her an absolute surety that he'd be worth the struggle. She expected scientific proof of many things. But sometimes fate was just fate. And he was hers.

When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth.

Here's the thing, I'm sure you're thinking, What the hell, she should be grateful and do it the way I said. Maybe you're right. But while I am grateful for the chance, this is creative for me. I have my own process and it doesn't include you or anyone else but the owner of the car. I'm worth it.""That's a bold claim.""I'm more than happy to show you.

So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Put differently: (1) Is removal permissible, (2) Is removal likely to succeed, and (3) Is removal worth the price the nation will pay?

The Constitution is well worth fighting for.

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

'Twould be as much as my life was worth.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

And O there are days i this life, worth life and worth death

I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek. But I felt the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.

The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

How many crumpets, at a sittin', do you think 'ud kill me off at once?" says the patient. "I don't know," says the doctor. "Do you think half-a-crown's wurth 'ud do it?" says the patient. "I think it might," says the doctor.

Por menos valor que tenha a vida quando é desperdiçada, vale, contudo, a pena defendê-la. Se assim não fosse, não custaria abandoná-la.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. I am sufficiently behind the scenes to know the worth of political life. I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted.