Quotes with worth

Quotes 121 till 140 of 418.

  • Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Harold Pinter Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Hardy Goodbye is not worth while.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Candace Bushnell Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • James Russell Lowell He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
    American Psycho (2014) 301
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Dudley 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.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Busy Philipps I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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