Quotes of: Precious-things Keyword

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they'd buried something precious, digging and digging and realizing that whate...

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

So this was it, she thought. So many times she'd wondered. True sacrifice was the surrender of one sacred thing in favor of keeping another. No matter how prudent or cautious one was, in the end something precious was lost. Whether the claim was in t...

The Well of Tears

I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other peop...

C. JoyBell C.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act...

Jim Morrison

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarant...

Jennifer Egan

Jefferson Smith: You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold ...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as th...

William Penn

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Essays on Goethe

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

GEORGIA'S ORCHARD:: Love of a Lopeared Dog

I held a precious, beautiful butterfly in my hands but let it get away.

His Ever After

Life is too precious to be left to chance

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Holy Scriptures; the precious promise of God.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You aren't perfect. You aren't glass. You're not gold. You're not right. But you are precious. Remember that.

Nashi

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

Robert D. Harris

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

Tony Levin

It is true that in life, precious moments my simply fly, But deep in our hearts and souls, they will never die.

Mouloud Benzadi

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Malcolm McDowell

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

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

Alice Waters