Worth Quotes - page 13

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. (Moshe Dayan)
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. View quote
John Frusciante
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can. View quote
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
...all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint. View quote
Emil Cioran
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living. View quote
Juvenal
I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money. View quote
Steve Jobs
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago. (Steve Jobs)
No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start. View quote
Hayley Williams
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. View quote
Cesare Pavese
A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book. View quote
Mae West
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it. View quote
William Saroyan
It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly. View quote
L. Frank Baum
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. View quote
Neil Gaiman
It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort. View quote
Roger Ebert
There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. View quote
Arundhati Roy
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. (Nora Ephron)
I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting? View quote
John Mayer
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? View quote
Nicholas Sparks