Quotes About Value

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

Take what you want, says God, but pay for it

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!

A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until is has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it.

My dear Bobby, did I understand you to say that someone had offered you a thousand a year? A thousand?" "Holed it in one, Dad," said Bobby. "It's impossible," said the Vicar. Bobby was not hurt by this frank incredulity. His estimate of his own monetary value differed little from that of his father. "They must be complete mutts," he agreed heartily.

People take you at your own valuation.

I speak to you for you will understand. We bought that screen with more than money--with love. For love of it, because it was beautiful and unique, we went without other things, things we needed and missed. These other Chinese pieces my husband speaks of, those we should buy with money only, we should not pay away anything of ourselves.

The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy. The pullover for Hector, too…her mind dwelt with approval on the soundness of her purchases.

The delicate exotic flower has to have the shelter of the greenhouse—it cannot endure the cold winds. It is the common weed that thrives in the wintry air—but it is not to be prized higher on that account.

La vida se nos antoja más llena de interés cuando estamos a punto de perderla.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.

Yes, yes," he said. "That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends. They are honest men--and that is their value to us. It is curious--but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Yes, my friend—it is odd—and laughable—and terrible! I, who do not approve of murder—I, who value human life—have ended my career by committing murder.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value.

A Life without meaning is equal to Death. It's like lying in your grave except that you still have Breath.

What is the essential difference between banknotes, coins, and chicken shit? None.

Just leave me alone. I'm happy goddammit. I know there's at least one person in this world... who cares about me. Who doesn't want anything from me. Do you have any idea what that's like? I never did. Not once in my entire life - until now. And that's worth more to me than anything else.

To be so important is to be very useful

You don't need what you don't need. Yet human nature wants to place value on things in direct proportion to the amount of labor that went into making them.