Quotes About Value

a pawn can be as valuable as a knight in the right circumstance

Divorce really stinks. It's like going to the store and buying clothes, wearing them for years and years, then returning them and asking for your money back...A store won't buy back a pair of used jeans, so how come people can trade each other in, like it was nothing? If your only pair of jeans is torn, you get a needle and some thread, and you sew them up, right?

Your name means 'silver,' but sadly, as an Unwind, I suspect you'll be worth little more than brass." And then something Divan had said when they first sat down comes back to him. Divan spoke of the six Unwinds that Argent provided. Argent is the sixth. Divan does not do anything by mistake.

When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was important than any other. In fact in the ground scheme of things, everyone was equally useless

Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineral that you must not let go of without extracting their gold!

la pintura de costumbres del presente. El pasado es interesante no solo por la belleza que supieron extraer de él los artistas para quienes era presente, sino además por pasado, por su valor histórico. Lo mismo ocurre con el presente. El placer que obtenemos en las representaciones del presente depende no solo de la belleza que este pueda revestir, sino además de su cualidad esencial de presente.

de aquel que estudie en lo antiguo algo que no sea el arte puro, la lógica, el método general! De tanto zambullirse en ello, pierde el recuerdo del presente; abdica el valor y los privilegios que otorga la circunstancia; pues casi toda nuestra originalidad proviene del sello que imprime el tiempo en nuestras sensaciones.

Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or

Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.

You have my soul and I have your money

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is

Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any...' 'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.

Why do you haggle your beauty?" I asked. "Why don't you just live with it?" "Because people think it's all I have. Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you you know it's for something else.

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

She made the same money in ten minutes that I had made in a day with some hours thrown in. Monetarily speaking, it seemed sure as shit you were better off having a pussy than a cock.

anything, compared to the people, is a foundation worth searching for. anything.

sometimes you've got to kill 4 or 5 thousand men before you somehow get to believe that the sparrow is immortal, money is piss and that you have been wasting your time.

Perché sfotti così la tua bellezza? le chiesi.Perché non ci vivi insieme, e via? Perché la gente pensa ch'è tutto quel che ho. La bellezza non è niente, la bellezza non dura. Non lo sai quanto sei fortunato, tu, a essere brutto, che se a qualcuno gli piaci, così sai che è per qualche cosa d'altro.

He even got up once in English class and read an essay called 'The Value of Friendship' and while he was reading it he kept glancing at me. It was a stupid essay, soft and standard, but the class applauded when he finished, and I thought, well, that's what people think and what can you do about it? I wrote a counter-essay called, 'The Value of No Friendship At All.' The teacher didn't let me read it to the class. She gave me a D.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.

did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be? the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.