Worth Quotes - page 19

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. (Terry Pratchett)
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. View quote
Martha Graham
I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. [...] They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids. [...] I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it. View quote
Bill Maher
It is - or seems to be - a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. View quote
Herman Melville
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite. View quote
Christian D. Larson
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? View quote
William Dean Howells
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (E. W. Howe)
Some idiotic things are well worth doing. View quote
Richard Ford
The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. View quote
John D. MacDonald
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. View quote
Richard Russo
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel. View quote
Lord Byron
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. View quote
Lord Byron
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork. View quote
Anton Chekhov
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here. View quote
Alfred Austin
He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still. View quote
Alfred Austin