Quotes About Precious

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

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

In war-time," I said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.

Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.

Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.

Will this story someday become my own congealing? How do I know. If there's any truth in it—and of course the story is true though invented—may everyone recognize it in himself because all of us are one and he who is not poor in money is poor in spirit or longing because he lacks something more precious than gold—there are those who lack the delicate essential.

Hay un gran silencio dentro de mí. Y ese silencio ha sido la fuente de mis palabras. Y del silencio ha llegado lo que es más precioso que todo: el propio silencio.

Held captive beneath the translucent skin, the seven colours of the rainbow flickered with some secret fire of their own all over the surface of each precious sphere. Chéri recognized the pearl with a dimple, the slightly egg-shaped pearl, and the biggest pearl of the string, distinguishable by its unique pink. 'These pearls, these at least, are unchanged! They and I remain unchanged.

Am auzit sau am citit c? filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafa?? un înveliÈ™ de cuarÈ›, din care e greu s? extragi metalul. Presupun c? È™i inima ta are un asemenea înveliÈ™; în?untru se afl? metalul preÈ›ios, dar afurisita asta de coaj? nu s-a topit de tot...

There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.

Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end--only in the end it becomes more obvious.

I know that in Faerie, children are rare and precious and all that, but in the mortal world, there's such a thing as abortion," Vivi says. "And even here, there are changelings." "And adoption," Heather puts in. "It's your decision. No one would judge you." "If they did, I could cut off their hands," I volunteer.

Nothing is sweeter, but that which is scarce.

My child — come see how readily the word comes, and indeed there is none sweeter to a mother's heart and mind or on her lips — well, then, dear child, during the last two months I used to drag myself wearily and heavily about the gardens, not realizing yet how precious was the burden, spite of all the discomforts it brought!

She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent—careless! sloppy!—with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.

They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream—excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

Our time's the most precious thing we've got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight.... Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.