Quotes About Value

Robert said, "How can you waste your time on something that won't make money?" "Didn't you used to write plays?" I asked.

you don't love things just because they're beautifully designed; you appreciate them and go home.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of denial. Is it an underlying belief that we as a human species are not worth it? Do we secretly feel we have lost our right to be here in all our selfishness and stupidity, our cruelty and greed?

When the world is right, it will be the unpaid and unsung people like Cindy who will be the honored ones, the ones who get paid the most, and they will sit at the big table. When the world is right, it will be these invisible people who we see and cherish.

Above all, do not bribe, reward, or attempt to comfort with food. Food is for hunger, satisfaction, and nourishment. Help your children learn how to endure feelings. Let them know that their feelings are real and valued and that there are ways to be comforted without using food.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self–esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Pride is ugly.

It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

No picture is made to endure nor to live withbut it is made to sell and sell quicklywith usura, sin against nature,is thy bread ever more of stale ragsis thy bread dry as paper.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

what thou lovest well is thy true heritage what thou lovest well shall not be reft from thee

What thou lovest well remains. The rest is dross.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The man who really knows can tell all that is transmissible in a very few words. The economic problem of the teacher (of violin or of language or of anything else) is how to string it out so as to be paid for more lessons.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies

All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that could be bought but those small tokens of truth and dogged fidelity which she, herself, could not give to anyone.

Studies are freaking expensive! And yet I was careful... I was one of those who studied the less! (Miche colucci known as Coluche)

You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be.

Money didn't buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.

One man's shit is anothers factory of Bliss.