Quotes About Value

De ce oamenii î?i pierd timpul cu lucruri care nu le folosesc dup? moarte?

For some, the unborn child is sacred to a degree the teenager never attains.

La mente intuitiva es un regalo sagrado y la mente racional es un fiel sirviente. Hemos creado una sociedad que honra al sirviente y se olvida del regalo. ALBERT EINSTEIN

La mente intuitiva es un regalo sagrado y la mente racional es un fiel sirviente. Hemos creado una sociedad que honra al sirviente y se olvida del regalo.

Usted no sabe, ya que nunca lo he dicho, siquiera en esas noches en que usted me descubre con sus manos incrédulas y libres. Usted no sabe como yo valoro su sencillo coraje de quererme

La experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor; después, cuando el vigor se va, uno pasa a ser una decorosa pieza de museo, cuyo único valor es ser un recuerdo de lo que se fue. La experiencia y el vigor son coetáneos por muy poco tiempo. Yo estoy ahora en ese poco tiempo. Pero no es una suerte envidiable.

Comprendo que para una mujer joven puede ser un atractivo saber que uno es un tipo que vivió, que cambió hace mucho la inocencia por la experiencia, que piensa con la cabeza bien colocada sobre los hombros. Es posible que eso sea un atractivo, pero qué breve. Porque la experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor; después, cuando el vigor se va, uno pasa a ser una decorosa pieza de museo, cuyo único valor es ser un recuerdo de lo que se fue.

la experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor; después, cuando el vigor se va, uno pasa a ser una decorosa pieza de museo, cuyo único valor es ser un recuerdo de lo que se fue.

Usted me ofrece que viva como un muerto. Y antes que eso prefiero morir como un vivo.

Usted no sabe cómo yo valoro su sencillo coraje de quererme.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

A bottle of perfume brought in more foreign revenue than a barrel of petroleum. A Paris frock was worth more than ten tons of coal. These very equations were evidence, in the eyes of some people, of the indefensible extravagance of haute couture.

The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.

the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

God, how long is a million years to you?" God said, "A million years is like a second." Then the man asked, "How much is a million dollars to you?" God said, "A million dollars is like a penny." The man smiled and said, "Could you spare a penny?" God smiled back and said, "Sure, just wait a second.

As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: "If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?" He paused, switched to English, and said, "Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century.

Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least near villages. (In fact, it's safe to say that meat consumption has fluctuated greatly throughout history and throughout the world, and that, with very few exceptions, until recently it was mostly eaten occasionally.)

A book? All this for a book?

Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: "Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin's theory itself was the conviction of man's mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn't trust it.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

These people work hard and do their best, and they want the world to acknowledge that they're intelligent, valuable, and creative.