Top 1200 Precious Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

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

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

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

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

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

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

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

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.

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

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!

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

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

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

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

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.

It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.

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.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

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.

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

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

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

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

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

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.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

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.

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.

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.