Quotes About Precious

In Brekkukot, words were too precious to use -- because they meant something; our conversation was like pristine money before inflation; experience was too profound to be capable of expression; only the bluebottle was free.

Good things are rare. They are to be cherished because they always leave us too soon.

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

Never trust money more than gold.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

That when you have something important to do, you should simply do it. Because fear is a useless emotion that doesn't change anything." She rested her cheek against his chest. "And life is too short and too precious to spend any of it being afraid.

the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments.

friends are precious gifts that we give ourselves!

I sat on the verandah steps and wept for the loss of my home, for everything that I held to be precious. I tried to muffle the sound of my weeping, but my voice cried out loudly as if it were the only weapon I had against those who had destroyed my life.

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Quizás has guardado un secreto en el corazón que debido a todo su goce o dolor considerabas demasiado precioso para compartirlo con otra persona.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.