Quotes About Value

Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.

No one's indispensable. Except you to me.

It's too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts.

For some a gift is only a symbol of their own superior position, which makes it not a gift at all.

There are some who believe that without a level of quality, life is only pain.

It's funny how a near death experience makes you realize not making time is wasting time.

For the price of the download or hard copy, anyone can own the book and read it countless times.

life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered." A

They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.

women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.

Puede ser que un caballo que cuenta sea raro –dijo el hombre– pero no puede ser que no tenga precio. No hay nada en el mundo que no tenga precio".

No será la belleza otro objeto de consumo, como el vino? Uno lo bebe, lo traga y nos da una breve sensación placentera, embriagadora, pero ¿qué queda? Lo que el vino deja como saldo, con tu perdón, es la orina; ¿cuál es el saldo de la belleza? ¿En qué te hace bien? ¿Nos hace mejores?

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

Qué le da a un desconocido, a un hombre que no la vio en su vida, el derecho a ponerse una toga escarlata y decir: «Una vida entera de encierro, ese es el valor de su vida»? O bien: «Veinticinco años en las minas de sal». ¡No tiene ningún sentido! ¡Hay crímenes que no se pueden medir!

Most people can be relied on to humour the upper class in social situations but it is not always easy, especially when they start discussing their value system.

What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value.

raw greed. "How much will it cost to plant them?

No matter what you wear... to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes.

When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Then how about we start with a shower, he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

It's not big, Veck said, but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless