Quotes About Value

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention

The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

The value of land, like the value of a life, is unreckonable and absolute.

It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered.

The customers of The War (all of us, that is) purchase life at a great cost and yet lose it.

The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing it cannot prove, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell.

Commercial transactions embarrassed Tol. When he had to receive payment from somebody, the feeling would always come over him that it was too much; when he had to give payment, the same feeling would suggest that it was too little. The passage of money seemed to him to discount all else that might pass between people.

Having lost and regained her freedom in the most extraordinary circumstances over the course of her remarkable lifetime, few could have set a higher price on the value of liberty. And yet, as she was well aware, it was only through the fundamental principles of justice that her liberty had finally been secured.

A man so easily influenced is to be treasured." "As

Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property.

People are important. They are more important than gold or places or – or anything.

Does it matter who we are, or what we keep or lose?

The woman never lived yet who could cast a true-love out of her heart because the object of that love was unworthy of her. All

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.

The experience of the past leaves little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.