Quotes About Value

Precisamos, amigos e amigas, nos libertar desse conceito que desvaloriza a nossa diversidade. Precisamos entender que não existem índios no Brasil. Precisamos aprender como chamá-los, festejá-los, conhecê-los e, principalmente, valorizá-los. Precisamos encontrar um lugar para eles dentro de cada um de nós. E a maneira em que mais bem podemos fazer isso é conhecendo-os da melhor forma possível.

Ocidente construiu um olhar sobre o trabalho colocando-o como o centro da vida, da realização e da dignidade da pessoa humana. E jogou por terra outros pensamentos, outras teorias, outras práticas que não levavam em consideração uma visão de tempo centrada na produção.

One should aim to be worthy. But worthy of what? Worthy of one's self!

Illness is a spiritual event. Illness grasps persons by the soul as well as by the body and disturbs both. Illness ineluctably raises troubling questions of a transcendent nature-questions about meaning, value, and relationship. These questions are spiritual. How health care professionals answer these questions for themselves will affect the way they help their patients struggle with these questions. We

Working in a system in which financial incentives have been reconfigured to make physician and patient economic rivals, it is hard for either patients or physicians to feel that their value constitutes true dignity-the value that has no price and belongs only to persons.' This is the value of those created in the image and likeness of God. Working

Ça vous plaît ? – C'est comme tout. Beaucoup trop payé pour ce que je fais, mais pas assez pour ce que je m'emmerde.

Eravamo il suo narratore, siamo diventati il suo contabile. «Se è così, allora stasera niente tivù!» Eh! Sì... Sì... La televisione elevata alla dignità di ricompensa... E, come corollario, la lettura relegata al rango di courvé. È nostra, questa gran trovata...

Je pense encore au cordonnier de P., mort de n'avoir pas trouvé repreneur à sa cordonnerie. "Alors ma vie ne vaut rien?" C'est ce qu'il ne cessait de répéter. Personne ne voulait racheter sa raison d'être. "Tout ça pour rien?" Il en est mort de chagrin.

Appena un libro finisce nelle nostre mani, è nostro, proprio come dicono i bambini: - È il mio libro - ... parte integrante di me stesso. E forse questa la ragione per cui così difficilmente restituiamo i libri che ci vengono prestati. Non esattamente un furto... (no, no, non siamo dei ladri; no...), diciamo, un passaggio di proprietà, o meglio, un trasferimento di sostanza.

El debate no puede ser sobre si la ciencia es buena o mala, sino más bien al servicio de quién debe estar, aceptando que el conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad. El conocimiento obtenido por la ciencia es de un valor ético neutral, pero no así la tecnología, ya que su utilización puede hacerse con fines moralmente acceptables o reprobables.

The owner doesn't ask questions about where the painting has been. He's just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.

And if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that everyone has a price. - Ari Shamron

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

it's that everyone has a price.

Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat's ultimate revenge.

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The rule of thumb is that the stolen painting ratings ten percent of its value on the black market. If the Caravaggio were worth fifty million on the open market, with such five million dirty. - Maurice Durand

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.

Indeed, feelings don't just matter–they are what mattering means.

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That's why you're so small, my friend: there just wasn't that much left." Fang laughed. "and that's why you can see us, you know, and nobody else can. You see everybody, even that lumberjack.

that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.