Quotes About Value

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately everybody drinks water.

Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.

Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

Because the world does not deserve them.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. Like soft silver, melting. Liesel, upon seeing those eyes, understood that Hans Hubermann was worth a lot.

En realidad, no importaba de qué tratara el libro, lo importante era lo que significaba.

I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.

it didn't really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.

The point is, it didn't really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant to her that was more important.

Sí, la recuerdo menudo y conservo su historia en uno de mis múltiples bolsillos para contarla una y otra vez. Es una más de la pequeña legión que llevo conmigo, cada una de ellas extraordinarias a su modo. Todas son un intento, un extraordinario intento de demostrarme que vosotros, y la existencia humana, valéis la pena.

Üzerinde bu kadar düÅŸünmen gerekirse, yapmaya deÄŸmez zaten.

The world did not deserve such a river.

Un regard d'argent, empreint de bonté. D'argent en train de fondre. En le voyant, elle eut conscience de la valeur de Hans Huvermann

I preferred one waltz with a beauty to a lifetime with someone less rare.

For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We're back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.

The fact was that facts were losing their value. Stalin had broken the opposition. He was also far advanced toward his much stranger objective of breaking the truth. Or it may have been the other way about: actuality, under Stalin, was such that dread and disgust forbade you to accept it— or even to contemplate it.

Suicide, like Aspirin, like everything else, costs money. And I didn't have any. Unless you're really brave, suicide is always gonna set you back a couple of bob

There's no hurt that's equal to time lost.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from Rediscovering Lost Values)

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.