Quotes About Value

It brings us to a confrontation with that important perception of Finnegans Wake, that its apparent sense of affirmation, plurality, and multiplicity shades into or hides a stronger idea of nullity. From the infinitely meaningful, universally affirming, it is a short step to the opposite, to indifference, to voids of meaning and value.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house

Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell.

There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the same time give to his scenery ponderable value which to them is worth far more

Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains.

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

Once false money (under whatever form it may take) is put into circulation, depreciation will ensue, and manifest itself by the universal rise of everything that is capable of being sold. But this rise in prices is not instantaneous and equal for all things.

no one borrows money for the sake of the money itself; money is only the medium by which to obtain possession of products.

the price of labor, like the price of everything else, is governed by the relation of supply to demand.

The truth, in plain terms, is this: That men consume cloth and corn by fire or by using them, and that the effect is the same as regards money, but not as regards wealth, for it is precisely in the use of commodities that wealth or material prosperity consists.

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is.

Tout s'achète : l'amour, l'art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.

T? k? nabagie mirst,bag?tajiem ir iemesls dz?vot.

toute vie, même nulle, est supérieure au néant, même héroïque.

The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time. It looks simple at first sight: finish something in two hours instead of three, gain an hour. It's an abstract calculation, though, done as if each hour of the day were like an hour on the clock, absolutely equal. But haste and speed accelerate time, which passes more quickly, and two hours of hurry shorten a day. Every minute is torn apart by being segmented, stuffed to bursting. You can pile a mountain of things into an hour.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.

If nothing is sacred, then we are all left to crawl through the mud, and there is no meaning to anything.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

My dear fellow, money is no substitute for the right kind of friend . . .

People want to feel what they do makes a difference.