If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. – Woodrow Wilson
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. – Sam Waterston
I have made number mistakes – I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can’t remember them worth beans. – Sherwood Smith
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. – Sidney Hook
You’re never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it’s worth it; you just have to be realistic. – Tiffany Thornton
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. – Thomas Frank
You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that’s a question I’ve often asked myself. – Theo James
If I’ve written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It’s like I need eight hours to do two hours’ work. – Steve Toltz
The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren’t worth the experience points to buy. – Warren Spector
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn’t get that job unless you were really worth it. – Vagit Alekperov
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It’s time to stop the madness. – Tim Bray
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I’d look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit. – Shelley Duvall
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there’s got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while. – William Bolcom
Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. – Taylor Hackford
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered. – Winona LaDuke
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while. – Tom Lehrer
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. – Thomas Piketty
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing. – Terry Pratchett
The Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don’t like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena. – Stef Wertheimer
