#worth

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. ↗

— James Broughton

#cradle #his #knows #life #living

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artist #being #both #called #capable

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#doing #thing #worth

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. ↗

— Amir Butler

#complete #desire #doubt #freedom #however

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#be prepared #congress #justify #members #office

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#been #committee #could #floor #got

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? ↗

— Richard Owen Cambridge

#bring #happiness #worth

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ↗

— David Cameron

#going #into #millions #pounds #spend