Value Quotes

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

If it were easy, it would have no value.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I value my friends.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.