Quotes About Precious

Loved people forgive and encourage, serve and uplift, because they are precious to someone.

you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.

Love is a soft thing. It smells like woodsmoke and sounds like rain. It tastes like sugared apples. It costs nothing to give yet is more precious than a sea of diamonds.

see how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here.

I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was hoarding for himself, using it up so no one else could get any. I thought: if I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

When I'm thirty-four, tonight will be a million years ago, I think–the St. Francis Hotel and the rainy palm tree sounds, Silas with the bandage on his head–and this makes me see how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here.

Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.

I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery-some things are too precious to gamble.

He brought his hands to the side my face, then the back of my neck, and I felt his touch through every square inch of my body. "I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery - some things are too precious to gamble.

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns.

You make me happy... You make me special... You make me lovely...

But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

Life is the weightiest of gifts, and there's no giving it back till the end.

even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

You are accustomed to going your own way without restraint. You no doubt fear losing some of your precious independence." "I do not intend to lose any of my independence," she muttered. "You will adjust to marriage in time." "Now, see here, Gideon, what is all this talk of adjusting?

Old is gold, but new is platinum.

And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.