Quotes About Value

Lumea nu merit? sacrificiul de a tr?i pentru ea, cu atât mai pu?in de a muri.

I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.

Remember, about thirty-six years ago you and I met a girl named _____? She was symmetrical and well spoken. Not only that, but her father owned a chain of liquor stores, and she was reported as conveniently nymphomaniacal. Yet, as I recall, neither you nor I especially wanted her phone number. Maybe she was too wondrously neat, or maybe she was too predictably available, or maybe she gave the impression of being so vastly prized that we couldn't prize her at all.

Girls like her are a dime a dozen, and I happen to have a pocket full of dimes.

I don't care what Cosmo says about exercise improving sex. Some things aren't worth the cost.

Give a brief overview of the value of your idea, no more than 5 or 10 minutes. Then ask people to pair up and write on a piece of paper what would be the same or different at work if the idea were adopted. From this exercise, people begin to see the value of it on their own.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.

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.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

Es la mujer del hombre lo más bueno, y locura decir que lo más malo; su vida suele ser y su regalo, su muerte suele ser y su veneno. Cielo a los ojos, cándido y sereno, que muchas veces al infierno igualo; por bueno, al Mundo, su valor señalo; por malo, al hombre, su rigor condeno. Ella nos da su sangre, ella nos cría; no

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary! What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.

Stop treating people like numbers. Is your only goal to attract numbers for popularity or attract people for engagement? Engage to grow your connections, not just to grow your numbers.

All money is blood money.