Quotes About Value

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

It is the turnover, not the volume of purchases, that measures success in the life of homo consumens.

Ageism is the intimate colonisation of embodied time by the vampiric forces of patriarchal capitalism that instils an ideological timebomb in the female mind that ticks with the incessant and cruel warning that the passing of time is something for which women must be punished. Women, far more than men, are judged by how old they are and how old they look. The threatening ticking of male domination reduces women's social and economic worth to how "fresh" we appear.

If it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.

I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable--nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.

Sometimes I think he wanted it to happen. Maybe he felt alone and unloved and he wanted someone to notice him in the most dramatic way: a rescue. How luxurious it would be, he could have thought, to have your father's powerful hands snatch you from deadly water, pull you up and return you to the shore where your family is waiting for you. Then they would recognize how valuable you are. You wouldn't be ignored after that. Every day you would be loved the way you deserve.

Cattle and fat sheep are things to be had for the lifting, and tripods can be won, and the tawny high heads of horses, but a man's life cannot come back again, it cannot be lifted Nor captured again by force, once it has crossed the teeth's barrier.

To Lancelot Andrewes, always insistent on the value of ceremony, this was absurd. Did Protestants pretend, he asked, that God 'will have us worship him like elephants, as if we had no joints in our knees?

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;

Wages, profit, and rent, are the three original sources of all revenue, as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately derived from someone or other of these.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Labour therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.