There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
This way of life is worth defending.
When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on federal investments to maintain and upgrade their transportation systems and stay competitive. And we know that it's an investment worth making. Because when rural America succeeds, we all do.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
