Worthwile Quotes

#1. If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Albert Einstein

#2. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.
When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.
That was living.

Chelsea Fine

#4. I thought there was nothing more worthwile or more respectable than directing the traffic, going from red to green and green to red in order to protect people.

Delphine De Vigan

#5. To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Frederic Manning

#6. There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.

John Jakes

#8. But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

Barry Lyga

#9. My purpose? What is my purpose?

P.C. Cast

#10. Everything you say is worthwile to me. Even when you don't let me finish a sentence.

Tara Kelly

#11. To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.

Anthony Doerr

#12. We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.

Evan Spiegel

#13. When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Carl Lewis

#14. Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy.

A Meredith Walters

#15. Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Michael Foot

#16. I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Claire McCaskill

#17. Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.

Emma Calin