Quotes About Precious

If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price! But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

Don't worry, my pearl. I'll be careful, not to ruin your face when I kill you!

Listen, child. If you knew that the most precious thing to you…was something that would bring tragedy, what would you do?" "I'd protect it. I'd hold onto it tight and protect it as long as I was alive." "Then be strong for the thing most precious to you. Only then can you realize your destiny.

Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman

Time would be precious from now on. It would tick by, of course, as it always had, but Harvey was determined he wouldn't waste it with sighs and complaints. He'd fill every moment with the seasons he'd found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases.

We're your daughters, mister. We're your girlfriends, we're your sisters, we're your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen.

G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)

Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt

Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.

As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to which Ralph had come when he left college still held sway in his mind, and tinged his views with the melancholy belief that life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.

It stood to reason that if the evil designer – the destroyer of minds, the friend of fever – had concealed the key of the pattern with such monstrous care, that key must be as precious as life itself and, when found, would regain for Timofey Pnin his everyday health, his everyday world

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality. I was all covered with Quilty—with the feel of that tumble before the bleeding. The

So,uh, where am I, exactly ? And what do you plan on doing with me ?" "You're at Underworld General Hospital. As you can probably guess, we specialize in nonhuman medical care. Our location is secret, so don't ask." "UGH ? Your hospital is called 'ugh' ? Oh, that's precious.

Francis Weller says, "The idea that you have to earn a living is a tragic way to think about being a human being." Especially if that's your only way of thinking about your one precious life. This is why the current state is a scandal. It's not just because of what happened in the past. It's because what happened is still happening. Karma is living energy that gets manifested in economics, politics, and the justice system.

Time on Hubble is a precious commodity. Astronomers across the world regularly ask for much more time than is available. Keeping Hubble working 24/7 is no small task. Not a single second must be lost and all tasks — either observations or so-called 'housekeeping' tasks, such as repositioning of the telescope, or uploading new observing schedules — are meticulously planned.

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Your precious dirty underpants and scores of blades are untouched by me. But I'm not thick. I can actually see something dangerous and not poke myself in the eye with it.

And a feeling came over him, as if he'd found something he'd lost, something precious. His hope.

Defecating was even more difficult, calling for a precarious balancing act as a sailor eased himself

The true survivor isn't someone with nothing to lose. He has something precious to lose. But at the same time, he's willing to bet it all on himself. And it makes what he has that much richer. Days stolen are always sweeter than days given.

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

three gleaming moonstones, soft and shimmering counterpoints to the clarity of the diamond.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he'd pretended to lose her.