Quotes: Value

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.