Quotes About Value

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,' said Carrot 'What, in Ankh-Morpork?' 'Yes, sir.' 'We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.

A dollar for a human bought a loaf of bread that was eaten in a few bites. The same dollar for Wee Mad Arthur bought the same-sized loaf, but it was food for a week and could then be further hollowed out and used as a bedroom.

I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back.

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by an elderly aunt, and she was proud of them because they looked nice but were completely useless. There was little room on the farm for useless things that looked nice, so they were treasured.

The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases.

No. It's just personal. Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

What they did was sell invisible things. And after they'd sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn't want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn't even know it was locked. "I

Being a buisance is not something you should die of.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Terry Tempest Williams

We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they'd turn their backs and go straight for the human remains.

My job was to take care of that man, and I've got nothing to show for it. I might as well do the same work and get paid.

If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value.

But after Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Laity, told the New York Times that he expected celibacy to be discussed at the gathering of U.S. cardinals in Rome, the Pope quickly shot down that possibility. "The value of celibacy as a complete gift of self to the Lord and his Church must be carefully safeguarded," the Pope told a group of visiting Nigerian bishops.

You must love the truth more than anything else, and your love of the truth must grow. You must be able to feel the truth as distinct from other forms of stimulation—self-validation, pleasure, fulfillment or anything else—for the truth has its own experience, which is unique. As you are able to identify it, value it and experience it again and again, you will want to return to it.

There are many sets of eyes watching the world at this time. That is part of your disadvantage. But military conquest will not be sought here because the world is too valuable, and the foreign races who seek to establish themselves here need humanity as their workforce—a compliant and willing workforce—for these foreign races cannot live in this environment for reasons that you would not guess.

Secret 251 You are entirely dependent upon God's Creation to accomplish anything of value. This is reason for gratitude in and of itself.

sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it!

Alles, was uns Freude machen soll, ist an Zeit und Umstände gebunden, und was uns heute noch beglückt, ist morgen wertlos.