Value Quotes
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Joseph Hume
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde
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A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.
Joe Grant
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Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.
Naomi Mitchison
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In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.
Dalai Lama
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There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
Brad Pitt
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In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value; the wittering English feminist concerned that her tolerance is implicitly intolerant of the Sudanese wife-beater and compulsory clitorectomy scheduler.
Mark Steyn
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I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.
Bill Gross
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When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.
Lewis Howes
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
Ansel Adams
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If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
David Ricardo
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Wallace Stegner
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I believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.
Jeremy Allaire
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For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?
Elle Macpherson
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
Jonathan Coe
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think one of the brilliant parts of our democracy is how resilient it is. We are each allowed to have our own beliefs and, as long as we follow the rule of law, we can express them however we'd like. This is a unique characteristic of the best democracies and one I value tremendously.
Brad Feld
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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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If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.
Chris Kyle
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
Vance Havner
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But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.
Martin Feldstein
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
George Jean Nathan
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
Ellen Goodman
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche