Quotes About Value

At her very first attempt Agatha had understood – or intuited – that a clue based upon character has double the value.

with you, criticise you, eat with you, quarrel with you, laugh with you, exchange ideas with you and find life more and more exciting because of you . . . you are one of the people and things (for you are a thing) that I valued, and found good in life .

I don't have time' means 'It's not a priority.' We always have time for what matters to us.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.

Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight.

One guy's crap is another guy's fertilizer

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.

an auction where most of the bidders wouldn't pay thirty-five cents to see Christ ride a bicycle.

When I was a kid, buying packets and penny approvals and filling spaces in my Modern Stamp Album, nothing was easier to find and to afford than those German issues. Think of it, a stamp that cost fifty billion marks! And it was mine for a penny!

I wasn't sure I liked him, but I was just as happy not to like the men I worked for. It bothered me less that way if I felt I was giving them less than full value.

Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

She's a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

We want to be special for being important. But, sometimes... We become important for being special.