Worth Quotes - page 14

Be glad you're fifty - and That you got there while things were nice, In a world worth looking at twice. So here's wishing you many more years, But not all that many. Cheers! (Kingsley Amis)
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. View quote
Anthony de Mello
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing. View quote
Lily Tomlin
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble. View quote
Joanna Newsom
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? View quote
Robert Browning
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it... View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Only the impossible is worth the effort. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. (Stanislaw Ulam)
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. View quote
Amy Tan
The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune; His jewels are his good children. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating. View quote
Cassandra Clare
One day in the country Is worth a month in town. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. View quote
Virginia Satir
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. View quote
Maria Mitchell
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. View quote
Maria Mitchell
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit. View quote
Margaret Cavendish
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? View quote
Richard Bach
It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]. (Orson Welles)
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. View quote
Og Mandino
Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing. View quote
Terry Gilliam
I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about. View quote
Gracie Allen
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible. View quote
Saul Alinsky