Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.
Vijay Krishna
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Mason Cooley
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
Moss Hart
Oh, the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, shaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Cralk
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico Fellini
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight you got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
Bruce Douglas Cockburn
Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.
Neil Peart
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry
Thomas Fuller
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
Charles Caleb Colton
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Albion W. Small