Quotes About Value

Bueno, alguna vez fui joven, pero nunca fui muy guapa... mala suerte para mí. No obstante, me conseguí un muy buen esposo, y vaya a saber usted si la mayor de las bellezas puede hacer más que eso.

had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

nu merita sa il regreti! Si sper ca nu va trece mult timp pana cand vei intelege asta si cu inima, nu doar cu mintea.

Merito sempre il miglior trattamento perché non ne tollero altri.

Cities grow the middle class. But to keep it as it grows, to keep it as a stabilizing force in the form of a self-diversified population, means considering the city's people valuable and worth retaining, right where they are, before they become middle class.

If outstandingly successful city localities are to withstand the forces of self-destruction—and if the nuisance value of defense against self-destruction is to be an effective nuisance value—the sheer supply of diversified, lively, economically viable city localities must be increased

The most valuable parenting tools are those you already possess: your love for your child and your own inner wisdom and common sense.

I think everything has value, absolute value, a child, a house, a day's work, the sky. But nothing will save us. We were never meant to be saved. What were we meant for then? To love the whole damned world.

If you love a waist, you waste a love.

I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.

There's no tab. And there's no price for what we give each other. Not ever. Not financial. Not emotional. I have to get back to work.

I give people gift cards," Lula said. "You could buy them in the supermarket. They're easy. There's gift cards for everything from Starbucks to Target and in between. I like them on account of the message they send. I figure it puts people on notice. A gift card says I feel obligated to get you something, but I don't care enough to put any effort into finding just the right gift. Gives people some idea of their place in your life, you see what I'm saying?

Did the little girl witness a murder?" "No. She stole a medal that was worth a suitcase full of money." Ranger raised his eyebrows and grinned. "Good for her. I like to see enterprise in kids.

You're out of beer." "I had to choose between food and the shoes." "You made the right choice.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

What is real is always worth it.

Worth. He made you feel worthwhile. That was his gift.

What's real is always worth it,' she explained to me. 'Look how it's made.' She showed me the shoulders, the way they were knit together with a separate yoke instead of a seam. 'You'll wear it your whole life.

What was a weed, anyway. A plant nobody planted? A seed escaped from a traveler's coat, something that didn't belong? Was it something that grew better than what should have been there? Wasn't it just a word, weed, trailing its judgments. Useless, without value. Unwanted.

I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tell me more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, it was base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many times with my mother. A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it.