Quotes of: Precious-things Keyword

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

The Mark of Athena

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Mere Christianity

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

She Is Me

Love is very real and it's dangerous. People do crazy things in the name of love. Bad things. Love is powerful and shouldn't be played with.

Summer Nights

All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives,” she said. “Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.

A Second Chance at Paris

Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it’s the one thing they can’t make you pay taxes on.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Ever since Sincere died, I’ve been meaning to have meaning. Her love was the one thing that made me want to do other things, and without it I’m thingless.

Sleepwalking is restercise

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

Secret Son

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

The Shadow Throne

Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.

Small Things

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.

The Start of Us

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

The Search for WondLa

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

And Then Things Fall Apart

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her.

The Things They Didn't Bury

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Three Weeks With My Brother

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.

Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Truth Or Dare