“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Bonjour Tristesse (Published in 1954)
“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) American newspaper editor
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) American tennis player
As quoted in Worth Repeating : More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 169
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"
Disputed
“155. Good words are worth much, and cost little.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).
1890s
“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
tracking with closeups (6) “Which Side Am I On?”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Friedrich Nietzsche book Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), p. 43