Quotes About Value

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

It's not simply what you buy," he'd told me as we hovered over Cartier's gleaming glass counters. "It's the whole shopping experience.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

There's value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There's no value in work for its own sake.

Them as work hardest get no respect for it – women, ranch hands, sharecroppers, factory help, domestics – and them as spend all their time talking about how hard they work have no idea what an honest day's labor for nary enough pay to put beans in your family's bellies is all about.

Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.

The boy is a whore. For slightly less than the price of a good meal-food which the wolf has no use for-that wolf could hire his mouth, his hands…other things.

Is that so surprising, that you should be desirable?

It paid to understand the politics, and for all their prickles the blood had long learned the value of shared information.

You will be quite safe, Master Shakespeare. My lord Salisbury would never permit you to come to harm; you are one of England's treasures in your very own person. But simply too much trouble to be left lying until things are more certain.

old ladies who remembered when cotton briefs only cost ten cents a pair.

Education is not so important as people think.

A living dog's better than a dead lion.

having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose. ***

Not all that is plain is dross

You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.

Good things must have comparers, I suppose,' said Portia, 'Or how would we knowhow good they are?

I think so." That's why she'd saved the boy. His future might not be earth shattering or cancer saving. He was still important, though. And that's what mattered most.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value apart from what we feel about them. An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.

The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.