Top 1200 Precious Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

I am fortunate to be successful. People's love is precious to me. I can never take that for granted.

I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things that just kinda make you raise your eyebrows. And those are often the moments that are the seeds of inspiration. Sometimes they're in a great conversation with friends, sometimes they're things you see live, something you read, a movie trailer you watch... I think inspiration is kind of laid out there. One thing we have to practice is recognizing when it happens, and recording that moment so we can come back to it.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

I believe that friendship is life's most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man 's soul.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

I have so many just precious, fond memories that revolve around food, and that's why I have such a passion for it.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

I've got a lot of jewellery that I love - whether it costs a pound or whatever, it's all precious to me.

What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say "no," which is something girls - we're not always good at saying "no." We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, "Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain." It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do, and what kind of work I wanted to do.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.