The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
~By Henry Home ~
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
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 ~
Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
~By Mike Ditka ~
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
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 ~
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
~By Henri Poincare ~
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 ~
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
~By Miles Franklin ~
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
~By Edward Bellamy ~
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
~By Albion W. Small ~
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~By Henry James ~
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
~By Barack Obama ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
~By Chanakya ~
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!
~By Patrick Stewart ~
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
~By Red Auerbach ~
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
~By Roland Gift ~
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
~By Aphra Behn ~
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
~By Gordon Getty ~
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.
~By Danny Elfman ~
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.
~By Russ Feingold ~
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
~By Mackenzie Crook ~
I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.
~By Todd Barry ~
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~By Walter Scott ~
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
~By Matt Damon ~
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
~By Yogi Berra ~
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
~By John Bates Clark ~
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
~By Horace ~
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
~By Pete Conrad ~
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
~By William Faulkner ~
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
~By Henry S. Haskins ~
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
~By Henry Fielding ~
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~By John Mortimer ~
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~By Roger Mahony ~
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
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.
~By George Herman ~
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
~By Peter Asher ~
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
~By Andre Breton ~
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
~By Nido Qubein ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
~By John Powell ~
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
~By Ralph Chaplin ~
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
~By Franz Kafka ~
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
~By Steven Tyler ~
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
~By Phil Donahue ~
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
~By John Yoo ~
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
~By David Bowie ~
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
~By Anne Dudley ~
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
~By Esther Forbes ~
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
~By Jim Courier ~
It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~By Annie Dillard ~
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