#worth

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

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#been #benefactor #confidence #death #die

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#claudius #decision #guilt #his #innocence

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#doing #thing #worth

Is anything worth it? ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#worth #worth it

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#director #every #execute #given #instruction

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

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#explain #god #grace #i #i do