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Quotes About Value

If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Hiçbir ÅŸey, her ÅŸeyi unutabilmenin verdiÄŸi huzurdan deÄŸerli olamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Him…. If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
~ Orhan Pamuk
As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries that once sold large one-hundred drachma loaves of bread for one silver coin now baked loaves half the size for the same price, and they no longer tasted the way they did during my childhood.
~ Orhan Pamuk
İnsan hayatta deÄŸilken bile paran?n önemini biliyor.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ne kadar hünerin ve yeteneÄŸin olursa olsun paray? ve iktidar? baÅŸka yerlerde ara ki, hüner ve emeÄŸinin kar??l???n? alamay?nca sanata küsmeyesin.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Era o momento mais feliz da minha vida, mas eu não sabia. Se soubesse, se tivesse dado o devido valor a essa dádiva, tudo teria acontecido de outra maneira? Sim, se eu tivesse reconhecido aquele momento de felicidade perfeita, teria agarrado com força e nunca deixaria que me escapasse.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Not to mention how insulting it is to suggest that a beauty like Samiha should be worth no more than a set of dentures.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Birisini çok çok seversek, onun için en k?ymetli ÅŸeyimizi verirsek, ondan bize bir kötülük gelmeyeceÄŸini biliriz. Kurban budur.
~ Orhan Pamuk
As my actual value drops, however, my metaphorical value increases—proof that poetry is consolation to life's miseries. But despite all such heartless comparison and thoughtless slander, I've realized that a large majority do sincerely love me. In this age of hatred, such heartfelt—even impassioned—affection ought to gladden us all. —Counterfeit Gold Coin
~ Orhan Pamuk
Cicero said: Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue. Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying. Here's something wonderfully cheap; let's buy it. Have you any use for it? No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Don't be afraid to think too highly of yourself. If the Creator made you and is not ashamed of the job, certainly you should not be. He pronounced His work good, and you should respect it.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsprings for watches, thus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold?
~ Orison Swett Marden
Time is money. We should not be stingy or mean with it, but we should not throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a dollar-bill. Waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money.
~ Orison Swett Marden
If someone offered to purchase a large percentage of your life power you would not think of selling it, even for a fabulous sum.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
~ Orson Scott Card
You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
~ Orson Scott Card
it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.
~ Orson Scott Card
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
~ Orson Scott Card
Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
~ Orson Scott Card
Test can't messure what really matters.
~ Orson Scott Card