Quotes About Value

The sweet smile of a young woman. There is nothing better in the world. It is worth more than salt. Something in us sickens and dies without it. I am sure of this.

Sangre, helechos y hueso, qué lástima que las criaturas como tú no tengáis la inteligencia para apreciarme.

It's like what Teccam wrote, 'The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought …'" "'… but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought,

Auri sabía mejor que nadie que valía la pena hacer las cosas correctamente.

Borrowing from a friend seemed like the simplest option, but I valued my handful of friends too much to risk losing them over money. As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

Cuanto más pobre eres, más valioso es tu orgullo.

daca iti era luata aceasta unica libertate, cea mai importanta dintre toate, si anume libertatea de a te izola la nevoie de ceilalti oameni, atunci toate celelalte libertati nu valorau nimic. Atunci viata nu mai avea rost.

part of the children's language socialization experience at home included parents negatively portraying their own experiences at school, expressing fears about their children's ability to succeed and raising fundamental questions about the value of school in their lives. The researcher concludes that these factors were central in contributing to the children's lack of continued cognitive and linguistic development in school.

Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.

Some things are not lost but sacrificed.

Why is it that we lose the things we love, and things cavalier cling to us and will be the measure of our worth after we're gone?

A stretch of time when I was rewarded with so many mystic moments, a chunk of red chalk, a chestnut, a rusted piece of scrap metal, a nail, a flat stone shaped like an ancient tablet. Although suggesting little of the magnificent work I had seen, these objects helped inspire my newfound contentedness. I placed them with the same care as a police detective into a clean plastic bag. Evidence of an awareness of the relative value of insignificant things.

The compass was old and rusted but it still worked, connecting the earth and stars. It told me where I was standing and which way was west but not where I was going and nothing of my worth.

Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin.

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

Everything has a price; the only question is how big.

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Bildi?im bir ?ey varsa oda kar??l???n? vermeden bir ?ey alamayaca??n?zd?r, istedi?iniz ?ey ne kadar büyükse kar??l???nda ödemeniz gereken bedel de o kadar büyük olur.

That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along with her. It had never felt like too much to ask for, but after three years of struggling to write his dissertation, Tom finally understood that he didn't have it in him to finish. Or, if he did have it in him, he couldn't persuade himself to believe in the value of doing it anymore.

For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book was determined by its spiritual quality rather than its physical condition.

La poesía es algo hermoso, pero no vale la pena que se te congele el culo por ella.