Top 1200 Precious Jewels Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

You just need to create and be open with that energy. The second that you are precious with it, it's almost like you showing the world you have a limited amount.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

I'm an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.