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.
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.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.
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.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
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 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.
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
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.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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.
Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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.
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.
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.
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
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.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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.
Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.
Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.
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.
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.
What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
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?
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.
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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.
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.
How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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.
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.
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