Quotes About Value

Here, you are exceptional...There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that.

Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.

Kill me," he said. "I'd rather be a useless corpse than a useful fool.

I can't let this be destroyed. We have few enough things to feed our souls.

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future.

If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.

Futility is in the eye of the beholder.

The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity.

All death matters. Only to the living.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure you've got a fabulously dark, twisted, and perhaps even deeply sick imagination. I'm not trying to devalue the dementedness of your imagination and do not mean to diminish your pride in it.

When everything is sacred, nothing is.

Ideas shouldn't matter more than people." He

People should matter more than ideas.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.

A two-dollar pump. A bitch. A scuz. But gorgeous.

In their humility, they can't easily see themselves as the spine and heart of the world, but if they don't eventually understand their value, the necessity of their resistance, the future will be an ugly realm of madness, oppression, and endless violence.

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

was the messenger of other gods, valued for his tremendous speed;

What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn't married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings.

Money's neither dirty nor noble. It's a neutral substance, an inevitable part of civilization.

She was only twenty-two, and although she had not been gently used, it would be quite a few years before men stopped buying jewelry for her.