I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
~By Ross Perot ~
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~By John Mortimer ~
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
~By Cecil Frank Powell ~
A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.
~By Francis Parkman ~
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
~By Brian Tracy ~
No one can figure out your worth but you.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
~By Charles Tennyson Turner ~
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
~By Sam Worthington ~
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
~By James Nathan Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.
~By Bill Paxton ~
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
~By Ingmar Bergman ~
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
~By Samuel Adams ~
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~By Jane Porter ~
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~By Mary Mcleod Bethune ~
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
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 ~
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
~By Edward Teller ~
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~By Ben Jonson ~
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
~By Curtis Carlson ~
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
~By Roger Mudd ~
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.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
~By Anna Friel ~
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
~By Michael Franti ~
Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
~By Paul Bremer ~
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~By David Attenborough ~
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
~By Johnny Carson ~
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
~By Kurt Russell ~
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
~By Elliott Carter ~
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
~By Anita Roddick ~
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
~By Merry Browne ~
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
~By Charlton Heston ~
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
~By Anna Jameson ~
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
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 ~
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
~By Will Smith ~
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
~By John Gould ~
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
~By Saint Patrick ~
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
~By Rick James ~
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
~By Allan Bloom ~
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 ~
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Adventure is worthwhile.
~By Aesop ~
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
~By Tom Robbins ~
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
~By Alexander Smith ~
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
~By John Bright ~
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
~By David Zucker ~
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
~By Edward Zwick ~
A book worth reading is worth buying.
~By John Ruskin ~
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
~By Michael Bergin ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
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