Worth Quotes - page 12

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. (Helen Suzman)
It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble. View quote
Robert Jordan
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying. View quote
Robert Jordan
There are things worth fighting for. View quote
Robert Jordan
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. View quote
Gore Vidal
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving. View quote
James Elroy Flecker
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. View quote
Henry James
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million." (O. Henry)
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out." View quote
Cato the Elder
Culture is worth a little risk. View quote
Norman Mailer
If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race. View quote
Ben Klassen
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making; or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. View quote
William Morris
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise. View quote
William Morris
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life. View quote
Lionel Trilling
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. (Samuel Johnson)
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. View quote
G. H. Hardy
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. View quote
Antonin Artaud
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald