Top 1200 Precious Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

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

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

I wanted to play at the top level in Europe, and PSG offered me a precious opportunity I couldn't turn down.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

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.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.

Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you - as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

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

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.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

Basketball's just something temporary that we do and we're blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

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

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

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When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.