Value Quotes

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.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.