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Quotes About Worth

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.
~ Lysander Spooner
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
~ Harold Brodkey
Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it's worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don't think that's a terrible thing.
~ Miriam Shor
I'll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.
~ Nadia Murad
An induction into the prestigious USSSA Hall of Fame is a humbling honor and a testament to everyone who helped foster and grow Worth's partnership with USSSA.
~ Robert Parish
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth
~ Robert Southey
Tada yori takai mono wa nai [Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge]. -Popular Japanese saying
~ Robert V. Levine
Her burning emotion was not love or anything resembling it because it had fractured her children's ability to live and experience their lives. It had restricted them and led them to close off their feelings. It undermined their confidence and sense of personal worth.
~ Robert W. Firestone
The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends for me on whether there is love in life. Without a sense of it, or even the memory…of it, I think I would lose heart completely. (p. vii)
~ Robert W. Firestone
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...
~ Robin Green
I never confuse the cost of something with its value
~ Robin Hobb
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
~ Robin Hobb
Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
~ Robin Hobb
If a human's life can be measured in counted coins, then that worth can be diminished, a copper at a time, until no value is left. When an old woman is worth less than the food she eats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well.
~ Robin Hobb
If a human's life can be measured in counted coins, then that worth can be diminished, a copper at a time, until no value is left.
~ Robin Hobb
just realized that there is nothing fair about grace or about love. As soon as your soul feels its worth, all you can do is receive grace and love as a gift. A very good gift.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Every single person on this planet is worth the trouble we might face in the context of sharing Christ with them
~ Lisa Harper
How the hell should I know what we deserve?
~ Lisa Unger
Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater.
~ Lloyd Alexander
A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
And how many cases where no one came back, making nothing to remark? No tale worth repeating? One hundred to one? Five hundred to one? The exception always gets more attention than the rule. I'm not sure you should race off down this road too quickly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't . . . quite know how to put it." He searched for, and rather to his surprise found, that odd calm place inside, still there. It helped. "Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." "Oh," said Gregor.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
When it came to a man's soul, Noah (Wild Card) thought that maybe his uncle (Jordan, Elite Ops commander) was finally realizing that once a man lost his soul to a woman, it was gone forever. And life wasn't much worth living without her.
~ Lora Leigh