Quotes About Value

It was a sixty-five, thirty-five split. That percentage isn't something I'd kill for.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

A focus on steady, long-term growth may be unheard of now in most public companies, but it was standard operating procedure for corporations in the 1950s and '60s, until we wilted in the face of foreign competition and the global economy and became obsessed with shareholder value.

Skriv, sa hon. "Din kropp betyder mer för mig än allt randigt fläsk som finns på Smithfield Charkuterimarknad.

Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce "facts of scientific value" on labor issues in New York.

Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Paulson said there was a principle in aesthetics: the more you prettify something, the more you risk undermining its value. Its essential value.

Things and riches of this world aren't evil in themselves; what is evil is that we USE people to love THINGS instead of using THINGS to love PEOPLE.

Maybe we're born not knowing what is and isn't valuable. Tribulation and poverty expose need, which forces the disciplines of relationship. Relationship opens the door for love and communion (great riches). Tribulation and poverty force us to rely on people. People are like a field of dirt that contains treasure. Storms wash away the dirt and expose the treasure.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

Those who self-righteously value their own contradictions are mighty on this Earth.

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.

He liked to believe he mattered.' Grace smiled, thinking privately, we all do.

Better to own a little that is dear to you than have all the potato fields of Sa Pobla.

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Abraham agreed to Ephronís terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.