Top 1200 Precious Jewels Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

The fact that there are still mainstream print media outlets willing to devote precious pages to book coverage at all is a triumph we should all be celebrating.

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

I'm a hip-hop dancer, but when I'm in my room it turns into this lyrical nonsense, and I listen to Phil Wickham and India Arie, who has the most precious songs.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.