If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
~By Alan Paton ~
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
~By Bruce Campbell ~
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
~By Mort Sahl ~
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
~By Alex Winter ~
What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
~By Moliere ~
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
~By Henri Poincare ~
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
~By Jackie Weaver ~
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
~By Alice James ~
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
~By Alfred Nobel ~
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
~By Florence Kelley ~
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
~By Jose Saramago ~
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
~By Joey Bishop ~
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
~By Michelangelo ~
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
~By Philip Larkin ~
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
~By Joyce Appleby ~
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~By John Mortimer ~
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
~By Ed McMahon ~
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
~By Oliver Stone ~
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
~By Montel Williams ~
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
~By Irving Layton ~
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
~By Truman Capote ~
A picture is worth a thousand words.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
~By Carla Bley ~
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
~By Susan Collins ~
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
~By William Collins ~
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
~By James Newman ~
Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
~By David J. Cook ~
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
~By Bill Bowerman ~
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
~By James Lipton ~
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
~By Richard Owen Cambridge ~
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
~By Mae West ~
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
~By Confucius ~
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
~By Ben Elton ~
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~By Carl Jung ~
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
~By Ray Kurzweil ~
I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
~By Javier Bardem ~
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
~By Charles A. Jaffe ~
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
~By Denis Waitley ~
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
~By John Astin ~
Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
~By Derek Walcott ~
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
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.
~By Graham Greene ~
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
~By Will Rogers ~
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
~By Kim Novak ~
The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
~By Jodi Rell ~
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
~By Tyrone Power ~
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
~By Charlie Watts ~
We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~By Greg Anderson ~
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
~By Voltairine de Cleyre ~
The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
~By Robert Rodriguez ~
When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.
~By Rick Perry ~
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
~By Edouard Manet ~
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
~By Earl Warren ~
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
~By Pope Gregory VII ~
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~By Claude Bernard ~
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~By Jean Rostand ~
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~By Hamilton Fish ~
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
~By Edward Coke ~
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
~By Edward Steichen ~
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
~By Iain Banks ~
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
~By Elia Kazan ~
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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