#worth

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#downs #effective #effective way #far #giving

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#actively #back #being #could #door

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#calls #entirely #even #frivolous #love

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life. ↗

— Joy Page

#breathe #create #here #into #life

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dominant #men #prove #sex #sorts

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american lives #any #lives #more

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#die #must #one day #realize #then

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#anything #doing #excessively #followed #i

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. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#farms #fort #hand #intervals #leavenworth