Quotes About Precious

No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.

The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

She did not want to be moved or bothered or distracted ('No, don't do anything yet, don't do anything, just wait'), nor did she want voices or movement around her, as if she were so full of foreboding that she preferred everything about her to be in a state of utter paralysis and preferred to remain on the situation and posture that at least allowed her to go on living rather than risk any variation, however minimal, that might upset the temporary and precious stability.

Our opportunities with students are too few, and the time we can devote to ministry is too precious, to waste them with muddled plans, poor communication, and unproductive activity.

el Ahora. Este es ciertamente precioso. Cuanto más se enfoque en el tiempo — pasado y futuro — más pierde el Ahora, lo más precioso que hay. ¿Por qué es lo más precioso? En primer lugar, porque es lo único. Es todo lo que hay.

I'd been waiting and waiting year after year to grow up so I could lead the gay life, and all the while I'd been wasting my most precious capital, my youth.

Ice was precious.

You shouldn't be too hard with little boys. You should treat them as precious, because that's what they are. —James Harker

I told you to stop, dammit! Nigger, all I wanted was for you to stop. Augustus heard him and he wanted to say that that was the biggest lie he had ever heard in his life, but he was dying and words were precious.

Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character

green emerald.

our God is that which we think most precious, for which we are ready to make the greatest sacrifices, which draws our warmest love; which, lost, would leave us desolate; which, possessed, makes us blessed.

It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.