Give Value Quotes

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.
- Paulo Coelho

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.
- Michel De Montaigne

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
- James Hillman

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C S Lewis

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- C S Lewis

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.
- Christopher Moore

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
- Robert Stack