Quotes About Value

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.

This is the role of the mother, and in that visit I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. In Stockholm, my mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.

Life was cheap and death entirely free.

Dignity doesn't just mean always being stiff and composed. It means a belief in oneself, that one is worthy of the best. Dignity means that what I have to say is important, and I will say it when it's important for me to say it. Dignity really means that I deserve the best treatment I can receive. And that I have the responsibility to give the best treatment I can to other people.

Miss Kirwin proved Bailey right. He had told me once that all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.

She stands between the unknown and the known. In Stockholm, my mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value. I

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option

Bailey] had told me once that all knowledge was spendable currency, depending on the market.

I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

never make someone a priority, when all you are is just a option.

I hate to lose something," then she bent her head, "even a dime, I wish I was dead. I can't explain it. No more to be said. 'Cept I hate to lose something.

The gift of your trust. Nothing is more valuable than that, and you can't put a price tag on that kind of gift. I'd spend all my time catching up, because hell not it's not equal. What you'd give me far surpasses anything I could give you.

Maybe I think you're worth it.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

Because friends like that are more precious than all the tiaras in the world

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

Am I really not worth shaving for?