Quotes About Value

Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?' (Her daughters shrieked when they heard that phrase.)

He was surprised to find himself close to tears, because it occurred to him that if he were to die, Ray would be snatched up like a too-good-to-be-true deal at the supermarket, and someone else could very easily love him the way he deserved to be loved.

It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks,' said Jane. 'That's why. It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.' Madeline

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input.

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

If you leave you leaving the best so you would have to settle for less.

And I dont think youre beautiful, I think youre beyond it.

YOU are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. … You are more precious to this world than you'll ever know.

Sometimes you can pick who buys you, and for how much. That's what power really is.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . .

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Labor is the true standard of value.

La capacità di apprezzare le cose ha il potere di trasformare la banalità in qualcosa di bello.

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

When questions requiring reasoned judgment are reduced to matters of subjective preference, counterfeit critical thinking occurs. Some people, then, come to uncritically assume that everyone's "opinion" is of equal value.