Quotes About Value

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment.

I suspect, in fact, that a good deal of the value of an interpretation is -- that it should be my own interpretation.

Time is such a cheat. The more importance you give it, the less you have of it.

Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.

Of all the songs we Zida'ya sing, she (Aditu) murmured, the closest to our hearts are those which tell of things lost. Perhaps that is because none of us can show something's value until it is gone, said Josua.

And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter.

To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.

You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. —Albert Einstein

not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

With one she loved she would be fire and flower and flood. But with any other, worthless, cold, and useless.

an unwanted man is a buyer with no money, and an unwanted woman is a seller with empty shelves. That is how, seemingly, the theme of the European financial crisis comes full circle.

The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.

Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959