#valuable

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brighter #fighting #fighting-battles #greater #greater-glory

Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#life #mouse #valuable #life

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know. ↗

— John Abizaid

#after #always #any #capturing #cell

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#give #invaluable #later #life #many

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#asset #damn #gave #incredibly #intents

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#country #dalton #drudgery #elementary #employed

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#after #began #christianity #completely #fact

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. ↗

— Tom Allen

#accounts #also #climate #cold #harsh

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets