Quotes About Value

How could you let the best thing that's happened to you go just like that?" "He was a good thing, Karin. A great thing. But not the best thing.

I'm not sure I understand what love is. It's like 'good'. No one's explained it clearly. I love ice-cream. I love chess and mathematics. I love getting what I want. I love getting away with things. But not people. They're either useful or they're not.

Rest assured that if the developers who are tasked with building the system do not understand and value the design, they will butcher it.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being.

Personally, I always feel that survival is cheap at any price and it puzzles me that so many men in authority don't seem to see it that way.

Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core of money.

Every man, woman and child, regardless of age, ability, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or social class was valuable and must be treated as such. His task, he realised, was finding someone to buy them all.

Admiration is a wonderful thing. I like it the same way I like hundred-year-old brandy, and both of them come my way about as frequently. The other similarity is the way it goes to my head,

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

He is doubtless very gifted but completely without mental discipline. He's outwardly very modest, but inwardly very arrogant." Ehrenfest's reply is lost, but Born's next letter is indicative: "Your information about Oppenheimer was very valuable to me. I know that he is a very fine and decent man, but you can't help it if someone gets on your nerves.

Mechanical things can be fixed...People matter more.", FADE by Kailin Gow

There are some things that it is worth taking risks to protect. It all means too much. Too much for us now. Too much for the future. Too much for everything.", FADE by Kailin Gow

So long as I remember the things that count. ", FADE by Kailin Gow

We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language if we ourselves were universal in our sympathies.

Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.

The value of a thing is never so poignantly precious as when we contemplate the loss of it

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn't make anything less valuable.

The false game is to give legitimacy to the notion that there is a hierarchy of importance among human beings.

Dying is common. Living is an outright scarcity. He who believes in death, will soon begin to revere life. He who believes in tomorrow, will have no value for today.

The only worthwhile watch in the world is not the one which counts Up, but the one which counts Down. Not the watch which tells you what time It Is. But the watch which tells you how much time you Have Left.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.