#worth

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#gills #homes #london #million #most

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. ↗

— George Clooney

#basically #billion #couple #dollars #export

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#been #class #consuming #created #into

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#business #campaign #challenges #doing #help

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billions #bring #come #create #cut

All the things that are worth doing, take time. ↗

— Mos Def

#take #things #time #worth

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ↗

— Hamilton Fish

#dying #let us #living #our #peace

Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off the walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of the two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you are doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #intention #life #rita-hayworth #shawshank-redemption

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest