#worth

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. ↗

— Roy Keane

#anything #enough #i #i am #less

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#better #chance #cheap #earnings #employment

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architect #build #concert #concert hall #great

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#consumed #even #four #good #great

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#goes #having #kind #laughing #living

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#fun #might #plain #price #sailing

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. ↗

— George M. Humphrey

#billion #dollars #get #hard #hard job

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#conveying #fact #fiction #in fact #only