Quotes About Value

We will have no wasted or excess love left over when we go. We will spend every last drop.

All she wanted was to matter. To be more than an opportunity. That's all.

Life was precious and not to be taken for granted,

Because sometimes it is as bad as you fear, or even worse. And sometimes you have to do it anyway, because the kind of life you're left with if you don't isn't really of the same value.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

A game that I'd kept on playing because people expected me to, and I was good at doing what people expected. But not anymore, because no one seemed to expect anything from me anymore. The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

Ritschl taught that when Christians affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, they mean that Jesus Christ has the value of God for them. Jesus was the inaugurator of the kingdom of God, which is God's highest good. Because Jesus' life was unequaled in devotion to the kingdom of God, he has the value of God. God realized his highest good in the man

People of Western culture put great value on the level of a man's knowledge but they do not value the level of a man's being and are not ashamed of the low level of their own being. They do not even understand what it means.

Price is what you pay, value is what you get.

Nowadays a long Romantic tradition has caused us to think of poets as private dreamers, ill-adapted to social intercourse and the horrors of a materialist world but thereby guardians of value and the messengers of our common soul. In 1711 François senior would have viewed a young poet as a modern parent might view an aspirant television celebrity.

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

We hadn't yet traded freedom for comfort.

One gram of shit is enough to ruin a kilogram of caviar. One gram of caviar does nothing to improve a kilogram of shit.

They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value.

neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even

In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.