Quotes About Value

The sacred space in time is irreplaceable.

in so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible.

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

Gifts become curses when they're not given their due respect.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

You don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.