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Quotes About Precious

My mother collects engagement rings.
~ Shirley Ballas
I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1." Ah. A dark, dense object that sucks up the light and destroys everything in its path. "Thanks a whole fucking lot.
~ Peter Watts
Insight is rarer, and infinitely more precious. A strong insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand reasons to act and make something happen. That, more than anything, should be your reason to fight and persevere for your own insight moment. When you are armed with a powerful insight, the ideas never stop flowing.
~ Phil Dusenberry
As I sat here. With eyes closed softly I think deeply of "you" And I inhale stars The scent of twinkling light So fresh and alive Sparkling gentle inside me And I want to write this feeling So tentatively As it must be Like writing words on bubbles Delicate and precious Begging them not to disappear Like dreams in the morning ...
~ Phil Roberts
No one tells you how precious and powerful moments of happiness and connection are when you are living through a nightmare.
~ Philip Gould
Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.
~ Philip Sidney
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
~ Sharon Olds
I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.
~ Jason Blum
I still vividly remember the moment I let go of an embrace with my daughter on her college campus - that, in her opinion, probably lasted far too long. I left the most precious thing in my life in the care of an institution, and that's a very hard thing to do.
~ Valerie Jarrett
The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.
~ John Lewis
Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.
~ Shawn Crahan
La libertad y la simple belleza de la vida son algo demasiado valioso como para desperdiciarlo.
~ Jon Krakauer
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honour and glory.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was the last, which made it the most precious.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The certitude that some shelf in some hexagon held precious books and that these precious books were inaccessible, seemed almost intolerable.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Protect your heart from the "bad", it's the most precious thing you own
~ Aaron J. Munzer
It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.
~ Aberjhani
Another day in paradise" was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
~ Abraham Verghese
Life comes from God and life is precious precisely because it is brief. God's gift is time. However much or however little one has of it, it comes from him.
~ Abraham Verghese
Perhaps history had dwindled away. Their lives, Lydia's and Silas's, the whole country's, had become ordinary things. Not worth recording any longer, not worth the few precious moments of her busy day.
~ Achmat Dangor