Quotes About Value

Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings

Buying food never did make sense to me. When I finally spend some money I prefer to have some permanent evidence of the expenditure. Doing it on something that is immediately consumed leaves me feeling cheated. For much the same reason, I suppose, I have never smoked. Buying something and then setting it on fire is incomprehensible. So

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

I had a very interesting experience with P.C.Chatterjee, one of my investment advisors. His concept was to look at technology companies as asset-rich companies, where the customer was treated as an asset. If a company had a strong customer base, it could be worth a lot even though it had a lousy management and a lack of products. And he felt that with a little push, these values could be unlocked. It proved to be a valid concept.

the true value and power of the social network: an open channel of communication that can not only entertain but also unite us in a common cause, from responding to a disaster to — as the Arab Spring showed us — toppling a government.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Is there anything more beautiful than gold?" - Freya's question. Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. "A farm at first light Is more beautiful than gold, or A ship's sails in the mist. Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.

La santé est une façon d'aborder l'existence en se sentant non seulement possesseur ou porteur, mais aussi au besoin, créateur de valeur, instaurateur de normes vitales.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

There's only one true identity—to be a living creature among living creatures. To be ephemeral and to value the Other, because he is ephemeral as well.

Love is a word used so freely that it's lost a lot of its meaning,

We could take at face value that we are elect because we have such good fortune already. And then we could proceed to act like spendthrifts because life is short and we don't fear the consequences.

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

We gave the best blood of our generation to win liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Would you throw it away so cheaply? And with the very instrument we gave you to protect it?

Quality is value to some person.

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.