Quotes of: Precious-gift Keyword

...there’s no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

The Bookshop

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

City of Fallen Angels

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Maggie Nelson

Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body; tears stream from the soul.

Arjun: Without a Doubt

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ , Oct. 10, 1842]

The American Notebooks

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Areopagitica

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

Sake The jewel which brightly shines at night Is precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake, Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry

[T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

Journey to the End of the Night

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

Kiss of the Highlander

You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.

The Replacement

I don't about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

Rabbit Redux

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Making Faces

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

You may think the thing dangling between a guy's legs is his most sensitive part, but it's not. It's his precious ego. Never forget that, Allie.

Moon Rise

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

Life of Pi

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

The Son of Neptune

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The Scarlet Pimpernel