Quotes About Value

On the evening of the third day, I can feel him looking at me. He has a funny expression on his face, like he's doing math in his head. Finally he says, "So what's that thing you got around your neck?" and it's clear what he's up to. "There's no value in it," I say. "Looks like silver," he says, peering

He frowns. "Sure is strange looking. Doubt I could sell it if I tried.

The reasoning behind anyone trying to make you feel less than you are is simple; you are more than they deserve.

Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country, Is worth a month in town...

Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world's desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds fire.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acaso ignoras que lo que más se discute y debate es precisamente lo que más valor tiene?

La conséquence logique de la non-valeur de leur travail [aux femmes] est la course au beau mariage.

On peut commencer à préciser la signification de la "gratuité" du travail ménager : c'est un travail qui, non payé, n'est pas non plus rémunéré, parce qu'il est effectué pour autrui.

La non-valeur marchande est caractéristique de l'économie familiale. Elle ne signale pas l'absence d'activité économique, mais la présence d'une économie autre.

If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having...a value conferring status.

Thus we find that the unconditioned condition of the goodness of anything is rational nature...To play this role, however, rational nature must itself be something of unconditional value--and end in itself.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

THE BEAUTY OF VALUE INVESTING is its logical simplicity. It is based on two principles: What's it worth (intrinsic value), and don't lose money (margin of safety).

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.

So, nun wissen Sie's. Hoffnungslos, wie alle unsere wirklichen Wünsche, solche, mein' ich, deren Inhalt des Wünschens wert ist.

Có nh?ng th? trên ??i không th? mua và không cách nào giành ???c, nh?ng th? ch? có th? ???c t?ng, và má»™t trong nh?ng th? Ä'ó là tình yêu...

Ötekiler gülüyor, para umurlar?nda deÄŸil, dertleri vakit öldürmek. Ne zor ne korkunç bir iÅŸ bu vakit öldürmek; ufkun ard?nda göze görünmeksizin h?zla dönüp duran ÅŸu saniye göstergesi yok mu, onun durmadan koÅŸmaya devam ettiÄŸini, amans?zca koÅŸup durduÄŸunu bilmek yok mu?...

But we had no intention of becoming shopkeepers or merely earning money. We needed work that would at the same time procure us satisfaction. And more than anything, we desired to make ourselves useful

the Franco regime's highly tendentious view of the civil war as a war of liberation against those without ethics or value – a mythology on which Franco never ceased to stake his legitimacy.