Quotes About Value

We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after all, and women are trouble and not so valuable. Low-income mothers drag down the country—why'd they have kids if they couldn't support them? Middle-class mothers are boring frumps. Elite ones are obsessed sanctimommies.

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ] You waste life when you waste good food.

It's said that every man has his price, my prince," Morgan said. "Some are simply too high to be met." "And is yours that high?" Duncan faltered just an instant in his ministrations, but Morgan merely smiled. "High enough that no man could ever pay it but you, my prince," he replied without hesitation. "I am your man, as I was your father's before you. You have bought me with your love. Nor can I ever be resold.

Comme disait El-Hallâj : «Que nul ne boive le vin s'il n'est pas un héros ; s'il n'a abandonné le sommeil, et que ses paupières ne se ferment plus. » L'énigme du Soufisme, c'est qu'on désigne la chose par le prix qu'elle vaut ; que la valeur céleste s'exprime en termes de sacrifices terrestres.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

The more the other party needs what you can offer, the more they will feel the loss if you walk away. And the more likely they are to say yes to your terms.

So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

the treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written. "The

The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.

Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something noble in the ambitions of Attila or Napoleon; but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

A MAN who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it, whatever its value may be.

We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Je crois pouvoir dire à son air qu'il trouvait que j'étais quelqu'un qui vaut la peine d'être vécu.

Humans in the power of death looks no worthier than animal, cherish ur life!

Let me give you the balance sheet of this war: fifty great men to go down in the annals of history; millions of dead who won't be mentioned any more; and one thousand millionaires who lay down the law. A soldier's life is worth about fifty francs in the wallet of some fat industrialist in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Vienna or anywhere else. Are you getting the picture?' 'So

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

Nadie se divorcia impunemente de la belleza.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.