Worth Quotes

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Is anything worth it?

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.