Quotes About Value

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Numbers are not important. Muttiah Muralitharan is a legend with 800 wickets. I don't even know if I can play the number of matches he has played. It was nice to get noticed but frankly numbers don't attract me much.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

I like to think I'm a good mechanic for the company. 'Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.' I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn't going to walk through the door anytime soon - or ever.

I have become a bargain - where do you find a player who scores 28 goals in Serie A and costs €28m? Nowhere, right?

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

When you spend time with people who have served our country in the military or doctors and nurses, it is embarrassing when you see what footballers earn.

I'm committed as governor to valuing and nurturing our relationships with our friends to the south.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

I don't fetishize objects.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

There is no loneliness, I decided then, that is worse than being ignorant of the worth of your soul.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.

Will you buy my hair?