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Quotes About Value

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
~ Giacomo Casanova
E' curioso a vedere che quasi tutti gli uomini che valgono molto hanno le maniere semplici; e che quasi sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco valore.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
An even more pointed reminder of changed circumstances, of course, is the AIG symbol sported, doubtless with some chagrin, by Manchester United, worth £14 million a year to the club when the deal was done thirty months ago, but now as ignominiously conspicuous as mouthing a slogan for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in May 1937: 'You'll always travel Fuhrer class on the Hindenburg!' Man
~ Gideon Haigh
When it comes to people's safety, money wins out every time
~ Gil Scott-Heron
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.
~ Gillian Butler
Ever have a day when you wonder what, if anything, is worth doing? Forget about doing anything well: I'm talking about simply meeting basic standards.
~ Gina Barreca
How do we measure a life's worth? In laughter? In orgasms? In money? In how often we have been photographed? In children borne or raised? In the number of continents on which we have made love? In number of books published? In latest versions of iPads and iPhones? In jazz albums filling a giant trunk in the basement? In years? We are all specks of dust against the specter of Time. Is ninety years so different from forty in the scheme of things? We are all the walking dead of history.
~ Gina Frangello
We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.
~ Gina Lake
It's funny to think of that voice in our head as our own, and that we tend to believe it and value what it says, when so often it's contradictory, unhelpful, and unkind...We are so much kinder and more courageous than this voice, which is often fearful and upset with life.
~ Gina Lake
Los muertos eran respetables, pero los vivos valían un carajo.
~ Gioconda Belli
Mientras se contempla la luna en el cielo se pierde la perla que tenemos en la mano», afirma el maestro Shoshan.
~ Giorgio Nardone
Don't be Jealous on some people success...Remember this, a full Garbage bag stands up too. It what's inside the bag that counts.
~ Giovanni Gambino
Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro.
~ Giovanni Papini
Nella vita" mi disse tornando a leggere il giornale "il valore della gente non lo si misura né con la stadera né col metro">>.
~ Giovannino Guareschi
Good council has no price.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six...
~ Glen Duncan
Do you know how few men there are worth having?
~ Glen Duncan
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
~ Glenn Beck
You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore
~ Glenn Beck
I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out,
~ Glenn Greenwald