Quotes about Value

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

An educated woman is a worthless woman.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Yes there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitching-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who offered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money. The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favors of the bitch-goddess. But it was nothing to the silent fight-to-the-death that went on among the indispensables, the bone-bringers.

He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.