Quotes About Value

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

thirty-thousand-dollar face-lift in the West is perhaps two thousand dollars in Russia

Geertruyt Schoudt was not the first person Hendrick Jan Wynants had sold to that day. He offered her the Switsers at a discount: she could have them for 50 guilders less than he had sold similar ones to "doctor Plas"- Gregorius van der Plas, the city doctor-that is, for A400 instead of Plas' fl,45o. But Schoudt was not buying.

Men—most people, in fact—value the hard-won prize over that which comes to them easily, don't you think?" Excerpt From: "Marry in Haste

Whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye. ZECHARIAH 2:8

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. MATTHEW 5:13

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. MATTHEW 13:45

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.

I burn the way money burns.

To live and know it is only for a moment … that is to know 'the soul' … and it increases closeness and despair and happiness … My life with you increases all things because I value it so much.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."-Anne Wilson Schaef

It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;

worshiping heroism, as typically defined, works against the idea that the lives of more common people count and hold lessons for us as well.

Empowered Black people made the intangible benefits derived from Whiteness less valuable.

Who thought of money?

And the effect is stronger the more the ticket costs. Imagine if, instead of $95, you had spent $150 or $250 or $500. As the price tag grows, so does the effect of sunk costs.