Quotes About Value

You appreciate some people most when they deprive you of the pleasure of their company.

You know, the things that matter in life are really hard to get.

As muito feias que me perdoem Mas beleza é fundamental.

With the standard time off for good behavior, I walked out the doors of the jail after eighteen days. That's what Razzle's life, and the permanent health of those other two kids, was worth, according to the judicial system.

Since we place so much value on human life, why do we glorify, in a perverse sort of way, the extinguishment of life? The answer to that question, whatever it is, is at least a partial answer to why people continue to be fascinated by Hitler, Jack the Ripper—Manson.

Many professing Christians are still focused on seeking wealth rather than knowledge about God, because they do not really believe that the fear of God and the word of God are worth more than gold.

to study theology is to know God, and to know God is the highest purpose of man, theology possesses the highest intrinsic value. As Jeremiah 9:23-24 says:

the Bible is a book, but it is not like any other book. It is God's mind, God's word, God's voice, and therefore it possesses supreme value and ultimate authority.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond. Now, however, whereas everybody recognizes the value of a louis d'or or a pure pearl, those who cherish pictures and believe in them are unfortunately rare. But they exist nonetheless.

ache belo tudo o que puder, a maioria das pessoas não acha belo o suficiente.

Quanto a saber se é vendável ou invendável, este é um estribilho maçante, e não estou nem um pouco disposto a gastar minha energia nisto.

Acontece-lhe, às vezes, Théo, de ficar apaixonado? Eu gostaria que isto lhe acontecesse, pois, creia-me, as "pequenas misérias" também têm seu valor.

The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent. Jewellers too get old and ugly before they learn how to arrange precious stones properly. And arranging the colours in a painting in order to make them vibrate and to enhance their value by their contrasts is something like arranging jewels properly or designing costumes

There are certain times when it is far from clear to us that art should be something sacred or good.

You must not go there in too anemic or enervated a condition, if you set a value on coming out of it stronger. I do not consider it a great misfortune for you to be obliged to be a soldier, but rather as a very serious trial from which you will emerge - if you emerge at all - a very great artist.

The day will come, however, when people will see they are worth more than the price of the paint and my living expenses, very meagre on the whole, which we put into them"_ Page.419

It is clear to me that there is a je ne sais quoi - I already see it in your words, pictures of some little corners in Paris, etc., even now I should see it in your first sketches and studies. When I think of Father, it seems to me that the good in him is due to his intercourse with nature, and in my opinion his error is that he attaches more value to other things than they are really worth.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

As Dickinson's Misery suggests in a number of ways, when lyric becomes an adjective, it evokes a theory of personal expression and abstraction that was highly problematic for Dickinson, but that has come to be highly valued in retrospect by modernism.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.