#worth

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#anything #everybody #extraordinary #lots #never

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #connect #general #i #keats

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#downs #effective #effective way #far #giving

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#actively #back #being #could #door

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#calls #entirely #even #frivolous #love

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#after #anytime #come #death #fringe

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#become #illusion #misconception #nuclear #nuclear age

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#eloquent #only #song #story #telling

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#expensive #know #why #worth #worth it