Quotes About Value

Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.

When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

Tell me again what you saved.'' ''Your life'' Daenerys, said. Mirri Maz Duur laughed cruelly. ''Look to your khal and see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.

Knowledge could be more valuable than gold, more deadly than a dagger.

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them." - Lysa

If life was worthless, what was death?

Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.

The scent of blood or the scent of gold, they smell the same in the end.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

Se la vita non valeva nulla, quanto poteva valere la morte?

He could help you, He can do sums, and he knows how to read and write. I know Chett can't read, and Clydas has weak eyes. Sam read every book in his father's library. He'd be good with the ravens too. Animals seem to like him. Ghost took to him straight off. There's a lot he could do, besides fighting. The Night's Watch needs every man. Why kill one, to no end? Make use of him instead.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean tin is useless.

the blacks had really been of economic, social and psychological value to the section. Not only had they done the dirty work and laid the foundation of its wealth, but they had served as a convenient red herring for the upper classes when the white proletariat grew restive under exploitation

They [the peasants] were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.