Quotes About Value

How much of you is left for your husband? To the person you will spend the rest of your life with. How worthy is it going to be?.

riches is not wealth but wealth is riches.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.

Lulabell realized that to Beto, she was nothing more than an inventory of body parts and labor-intensive regional dishes.

Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we don't start to take teachers' jobs seriously.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

He saw clearly, immediately, that the man didn't care about the gift's value, didn't care about the gift even, but cared profoundly for the act of receiving as though the gift were a tribute, a confirmation of his self, his being, his reality. He found no pleasure in what he was taking but in the act of taking itself.

Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it, you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?

D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel that this demand leaves untouched the sexual division of labour - indeed, measures like paid maternity leave (…) can be seen as a form of'wages for motherhood' but(…) it fixes women more rigidly into work defined as 'women's work'.

To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves...

Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.

But money, like gravity, is a force that clumps, drawing in more and more of itself, eventually creating the black hole that we know as wealth. This is not simply the fault of humans. Ask any dollar bill and it will tell you it prefers the company of hundreds to the company of ones. Better to be a sawbuck in a billionaire's account than a dirty single in the torn pocket of an addict.

Since when does how a thing looks matter more than what it is?

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

All currency is neurotic currency.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Allí donde la vida se configura como una perpetua lucha por la obtención de dinero, el hombre acaba, de facto, transformado en un bien más del sistema de la propiedad

Sólo es realmente hermoso lo que no sirve para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las necesidades del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas (p.

la vida de un museo o una excavación arqueológica, como la de un archivo o una biblioteca, es un tesoro que la colectividad debe preservar con celo a toda costa.