Quotes About Value

If you've ever had to run you know that stuff is just stuff. Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.

if requiring you to show your ID is a method of oppression, then there is an awful lot of oppression going on in this country. Airports are full of oppression. Liquor stores? Oppression. Want to buy a pack of cigarettes? Hope you like your oppression extra smooth. Want to buy a car? Careful, oppression loses half it's value the minute you drive it off the lot.

If people with anger issues were offered a million dollars to significantly reduce the number of times they expressed excessive anger over a six-month period, most would become adept at controlling their temper. But in the absence of million-dollar incentives, people destroy marriages, family relationships, and friendships—things worth far more than a million dollars.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan. Watch your back.

when you is precious to God, you is important to Satan. Watch your backside, somethin' is gettin' ready to happen

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

The self or wealth, which is greater? Gain or loss, which is more painful?

The assignment of more importance to wealth can actually lead to gain being more painful.

God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?

Money might not buy happiness, I reflected, but it was a useful commodity, nonetheless.

For a moment, I saw him as he had looked the morning I married him. Duine uasal was what he looked, a man of worth. But the bold face above the lace was the same, older now, but wiser with it—yet the tilt of his shining head and the set of the wide, firm mouth, the slanted clear cat-eyes that looked into my own, were just the same. Here was a man who had always known his worth.

The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.

More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.

Never give anything away for free—but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.

Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

It hadn't occurred to him that if she had little else, it would be that much more important to Joan Findlay to cling to her one valuable possession-her pride.

The Frenchman's Gold! Beyond its value as treasure—which would belong to the Crown in any case—the gold had a considerable and personal value to John William Grey. The finding of that half-mythical hoard would be his passport out of Ardsmuir—back to London and civilization.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. I

At first he had thought the loneliness would kill him, but once he had learned it would not, he came to value the solitude of the mountainside.