Top 1200 Precious Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't something you can have like a precious little jewel you put in a box and then put on your shelf. It's something you walk towards. And there's always difficulties; there's always pain in relationships. But you can keep walking towards that beacon in the distance. That process, that journey, is called life. And if you're moving towards the things that you value, life is more vital, flowing; it's more empowering.

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.

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

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.

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We need to redefine "smart" when talking about things Obama does, 'cause in my world he doesn't do smart things. He doesn't do intelligent things or wise things. He's doing destructive things.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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?