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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
Henry Home

Great, Friend, Hard

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.
Patrick Rothfuss

Time, Good, School

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Walter Kaufmann

Life, Nothing, Suffering

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.
Heather Matarazzo

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
Grandmaster Flash

Music, Two, Play

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
George Herman

Greatest, May, Together

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
Bill Kristol

Proud, Rise, Weakness

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
Alma Gluck

Saying, Advice, Poor

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
Stephen Rea

Time, Thought, Country

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
John Dos Passos

Freedom, Joy, Almost

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
Dana Spiotta

Great, Making, Artists

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
John Bright

Great, Thought, Moment

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
Stephen Greenblatt

Nothing, Writing, Give

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
Michael Kinsley

May, Thought, Purpose

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Money, School, Words

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Money, True, Real

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
Marie de France

Love, Heart, Nothing

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
Mark Kelly

Society, Here, Risk

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
Dwight Yoakam

Film, Seen, Bit

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether

Funny, Women, Today

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.
Juliet Stevenson

Money, Rich, Rather

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia

Work, Everyone, Five

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.
Ethan Suplee

Done, Seeing, Definitely

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.
Karl Urban

Work, Good, Mind

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
Garet Garrett

Put, Might, Ten

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
Asa Gray

Person, Everything, Find

Some things are worth the splurge.
Kiernan Shipka

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
Matthew Modine

Money, Baseball, Thought

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
Dee Dee Ramone

Play, Old, Rather

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Two, Fact, Often

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