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Quotes About Precious

The world is full of precious garbage.
~ Ryan Boudinot
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odour of outdoors on it I want to cry.
~ Margaret Atwood
A thing is valued, only if it is rare and hard to get.
~ Margaret Atwood
A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get.
~ Margaret Atwood
I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not and may never exist. I will live for now and stop wasting my time. Ever moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn my life into a nightmare. I vow to live, to be mindful, to pay attention to life and hold it hard to my heart. Every beat another second going by.
~ Margaret Cho
It is almost impossible to describe happiness,because at the time it feels entirely natural as if all the r est of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is.
~ Margaret George
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
~ Gene Wilder
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
~ John Lewis
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The most precious resource we have is time.
~ Steve Jobs
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
~ Seneca the Younger
You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
~ David Brainerd
Everything matters. Time is precious.
~ Jessica Hagedorn
como hacer viable la Virtud, deseable la Educación y preciosa y comprensible la Religion
~ Anne Bronte
I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept.
~ Anne Lamott
I'm so sorry, my dear," she said quietly. "It's a shock, even though he was old. Pieces of our lives being chipped away reminds us of our own fragility, and how precious life is.
~ Anne Perry
There is something uniquely precious about an old friendship. One has shared so much, seen the passage of time, how it has marked and changed us, the hopes realized and the hopes dashed, the work to fulfill the dreams, and the dreams that are crumbled and kept secret.
~ Anne Perry
There was a fear in the unknown which was too vast to find the strength to face. Everything precious and familiar was being engulfed in a spiritual void.
~ Anne Perry
When you trust no one and believe in nothing, you are vulnerable to anything, and yet in some ways also to nothing. He was still learning what it was to belong irrevocably, not to be able to walk away because the ties are too deep, too woven into who you are, who you want and need to be, where all that is comfortable and precious resides.
~ Anne Perry