Value Quotes

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.