Quotes with worth-while

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  • Sara Teasdale No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Jean Paul No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Randolph Churchill No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
    Randolph Churchill
    British journalist and writer (1911 - 1968)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David Gemmell Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
    Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 193
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Cockburn Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
    you got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
    Stealing Fire (1984) Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Mark Twain Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bo Burnham Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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