Quotes About Precious

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

A diamond set in lead his worth retains.

To know that you were with one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you in even the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and both Eragon and Saphira cherished it.

We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living. It is always waiting to happen. Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.

Coffee?" Isabelle finger-combed her hair and tied a cotton scarf around her head. "No, merci, it is too precious." The old woman gave her a smile. "No one suspects a woman my age of anything. It makes me good at trading. Here." She offered Isabelle a cracked porcelain mug full of steaming black coffee. Real coffee. Isabelle wrapped her hands around the mug and breathed deeply of the familiar, never-again-to-be-taken-for-granted aroma. Madame

If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.

En la vida, hay cosas que pueden realizarse y otras que no. Las que se materializan, las olvidamos enseguida. Sin embargo, las que no podemos realizar, las guardamos eternamente dentro de nuestro corazón como algo muy preciado. Éste es el caso de los sueños o del os anhelos.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

The answer is found in the word "achieving," for these "momentary troubles are achieving for us" something very precious. They are teaching us not only the way to victory but, better still, the law of victory—there is a reward for every sorrow, and the sorrow itself produces the reward.

Accordez-moi, Seigneur, ce vin qui est aussi nécessaire que votre précieux sang. Ce vin, sans quoi, tout ici bas est laid et maussade, ce vin qui rend la vie acceptable, et tolérables les foutus contemporains que vous m'avez données.

he collected the stories like treasure.

He listened the way a cactus drinks rain—every word a precious drop in a world frugal with wonder.

Precious jewels are to be sought, not to be seeking.

The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

The point is, we're investing our labor on a product that is consumed immediately and brings in small change." "Big Shot!" their father said. "You rather spend your precious time jacking off? Then shoot your wad about your own business and not mine.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.

And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

If Jace was gold, catching the light and attention, Alec was silver. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Jem said, "we want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.

Gold to airy thinness beat.