Quotes About Value

The title is Ulysses' 'Is it about the Odyssey?' 'No, it's about how prosaic life is today.' 'And so?' 'That's all. It says that our heads are full of nonsense. That we are flesh, blood, and bone. That one person has the same value as another. That we want only to eat, drink, fuck.

I'll give you treasure chests full of gold pieces, I know the value of spending time with you." I

Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

se sentiu humilhada por ter passado a vida atribuindo um poder a coisas que, nas hierarquias ordinárias, contavam muito pouco: o alfabeto, a escrita, os livros.

Peut-être étais-je belle même si mon mari avait fait du sentiment de ma beauté une boulette et l'avait jetée dans une poubelle, comme un papier qui aurait enveloppé un cadeau.

We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.

How wonderful to travel, how wonderful to know someone who knows everything, whose intelligence and looks and kindness are extraordinary, and who explains to you the value of what by yourself you wouldn't be able to appreciate.

Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority.

Der Herdeninstinkt schätzt ja überhaupt das Mittlere hoch ein. Er preist es als wertvoll. Sie glauben, sie seien stark, weil sie die Mehrheit bilden. In der mittleren Schicht gibt es keinen Schrecken, keine Furcht. Aneinanderdrängen sie sich um der Illusion von Wärme willen. Mit nichts ist man im Mittleren allein, mit sich selbst schon gar nicht.

Money never goes out of fashion.

Ng??i ?àn bà có thôi thúc trao t?ng t?t c? tình yêu và gi? t? giá.

não sabe como pode amor ser tão mal recompensado, que é como quem diz o seu amor. Esperamos sempre do nosso trabalho a recompensa. Acreditamos que o trabalho dos outros não precisa de ser recompensado, esperamos poder pagá-lo mais barato.

Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

paula's puny stomach, which will soon be fat and swollen, so that for the same money one could suddenly have many more pounds of paula, is up for auction. but nobody wants it. with a pig that would be an enormous gain in value. with paula it's a sign, mat she was easy to get, too easy, and now it's all the harder to dispose of her.

Let me remind all of us--disabled and nondisabled--that every time we defend our intelligence, we come close to disowning intellectually disabled people. We imply that it might be okay to exclude, devalue, and institutionalize people who actually live with body-mind conditions that impact the ways they think, understand, and process information. The only way out of this trap is to move toward, not away from, intellectually disabled people, to practice active solidarity.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Was this because their neurological hardwiring made them better at systems, while women were better at empathy—because men valued abilities and things, while women valued feelings and people? How could we learn to place less value on feelings and people?

It was impossible not to think that her beauty was one of the most important things about her–something having to do with who she really was.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

The price of maturity is exorbitant these days. Paying for wisdom with money is one thing, but when time becomes the currency, it's your life at stake.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Nothing is ever more appreciated than when it is remembered.