Value Quotes
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gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
P. D. James
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I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.
Al Jarreau
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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
Claudia Rankine
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I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.
James G. Stavridis
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
Freya Stark
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
Dwayne Johnson
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
James Carville
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We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
David Suzuki
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Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.
David Jeremiah
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What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
Chris Kyle
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Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Charles Vest
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I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.
Colin Farrell
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
Oliver Goldsmith
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There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
Laeta Kalogridis
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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie
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Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.
Eric Alterman
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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.
Kimbal Musk
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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
Lev Grossman
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I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value.
Jeffrey Gitomer