Quotes About Value

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.

Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft

Differentiation favors people who are energetic and extroverted and undervalues people who are shy and introverted, even if they are talented.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I have more Dollars than sense

People take you at your own evaluation, or at least the value that you appear to show.

Life is too short to argue about time.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

There's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count . . . You realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get back.

And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done . . . the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get

That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.

Mi joven amigo, mucho me complace vuestra ignorancia; es tan valiosa como la doctrina de los demás: al menos no vivís en el error y, si bien no estáis instruido, sois susceptible de estarlo. Vuestro natural, la franqueza de vuestro carácter, la rectitud de vuestro espíritu, me agradan.

Me agrada tu ignorancia, joven camarada, tiene más valor que la doctrina de los demás: tú, al menos no estás en el error, y si no eres instruido, eres capaz de llegar a serlo.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

Anyone who questions the value of the 'fact' draws down on himself the most severe reproaches of our day: he is a 'reactionary,' he wants to go back to the 'good old days,' and those who make these reproaches do not realize that such questioning is, perhaps, the only revolutionary attitude possible at the present time.

v tomto zmysle práve tak ako "umenie pre umenie" neuznáva prosto a jednoducho svet mravnosti a hodnoty ?udského života a to, že umelec je ?LOVEK, tak ani heslo "umenie pre ?udí" neuznáva prosto a jednoducho svet umenia samotného a hodnoty tvorivého intelektu a to, že umelec je UMELCOM.

And how odd a thing change was. She hadn't even recognized the shift within herself until it was already done. She hadn't felt it when she'd begun to value her own thoughts. She hadn't even believed it when she'd begun to feel wild and reckless. She'd only let it happen and never attached a word to it. Love. She'd fallen in love. Not only with Peter, but with herself too. With the wayward woman she could be. In a gown with lace and embroidery, in a tavern maid's bartered dress, and in his arms.

Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.