Quotes About Worth

Sometimes the right scent is the one that seems all wrong. Sometimes a woman goes into a perfume shop seeking adaptation. Or metamorphosis. Or an outright lie. if you can convince a client just a little bit, he'll convince himself the rest of the way. He wants so much to believe. Faith. It's vital in both thievery and perfume. Perfume was the most exquisite fraud of all - a pretty little bottle of cheap fixings and alcohol that you sold for at least triple its worth.

these women valued one another as kin and understood the transcendent worth of lineage.

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's worth sitting through the sex and violence because the narrative is so great.'

A four-year-old should have no self-esteem, and for good reason. What could he have possibly accomplished in his life to justify esteeming oneself so highly?

The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.

Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

It may work, Jeeves. It is, at least, worth trying. I shall now leave you, to prepare myself for the ordeal before me with silent meditation.' 'Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.' 'No, Jeeves. This is no time for tea. I must concentrate.

Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are.

Life is like sex. It's not always good, but its always worth trying.

A woman, not a thing. Wasn't that a prize worth risking everything for, however short a time I might have to enjoy it?

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

How can you develop such an urge? By constantly reminding yourself how important these principles are to you. Picture to yourself how their mastery will aid you in leading a richer, fuller, happier and more fulfilling life. Say to yourself over and over: 'My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

One night a century ago, when a screech owl was screeching in the woods along the shores of Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau dipped his goose quill into his homemade ink and wrote in his diary: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.

keep a right heart we must remember that the face of God shining upon us in gracious approval is the basis of our value.