The world and its ordsprog

en The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind

en How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
  Oscar Wilde

en War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
  John Dryden

en Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writing about.
  Bette Greene

en Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en The world is not the same as it used to be. Companies pay for skills in an era where brains are more important than brawn, and the forces of automation, globalization, deregulation and competition have changed what this kind of work is worth in the world.

en At a time when so much of the world questions our commitment to our own values, I urge my colleagues to show the American people and the world that we will defend our country but we will do so in a way that protect those rights that make it worth defending.

en And we're not good enough to do that, ... You've just got to continue to remind players, it's not worth it, it's not worth it, it's not worth it. You do try to get them to be aggressive, but the aggression has got to shut off at a certain time.
  Bobby Bowden

en It was tough. But look around. It was worth it. That's something I go back and tell people, it's worth it. If you stick with it, work at it, get through the lonely times, it's worth it.

en [Finally, Beard suggests a play in Edison International.] We think the utility is worth probably $17-to-$20. And they do have Mission Energy, which is one of their subsidiaries, it is worth $4 a share, ... We expect them to pay a dividend in 2003 and be worth $23-to-$25.

en Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see
  Samuel Johnson

en He wasn't a showman; he was simply a genuinely pe𝑥y individual. The world and its way have a certain worth.
  Robert Browning

en It shows you it's well worth looking around in this world, still, to see what's out there.

en There is this argument that to me is rabidly fascist, which is that one's worth is in some way or perhaps completely determined by one's functionality, ... In other words, you cease to have moral worth or your moral worth is somehow lessened when you become disabled, demented, incompetent or terminally ill.

en We are doing it regardless of religion, ... but I think it does give the Muslim world -- and the rest of the world -- an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action, where we care about the dignity of every individual and the worth of every individual.
  Colin Powell


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