Quotes About Precious

we have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control.

I've got a wonderful, pathetic little life that is precious to me.

Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks, for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume. —Arabic saying ~800 AD

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste

time was the ultimate commodity, and you were born with only so much to spend, and there was no passbook to tell you the exact amount.

She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault.

And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstasy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.

Your life is too precious to risk it by protesting, right?

Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better...noble and generous and beneficent.

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Life is precious to us because it is ephemeral.

The incompleteness and the uncertainty of our knowledge, our precariousness, suspended over the abyss of the immensity of what we don't know, does not render life meaningless: it makes it interesting and precious.

I am moving the rudder, shifting the course of my life. I have not thought of it this way before, but that is what I am doing. Taking my fate into my own hands, turning dreams into reality. And there is nothing more sacred or precious than that. To choose a direction: but how often do we miss the signposts?

You think my life is such a precious thing to me, that I would trade my honor for a few more years, of what?

When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.

Pearl of great price.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.