Precious Quotes

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Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately… — Doug Henning
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the… — Charles Baudelaire
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life… — Tristan Tzara
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul… — Paul Verlaine
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first… — Johannes Kepler
Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. — Muhammad Ali
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose. — Jonathan Haidt
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. — Sharon Olds
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge… — Sergei Eisenstein
In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders… — Neal A. Maxwell
I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing,… — Spencer W. Kimball
How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today,… — Pope Francis
The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards… — Pope Benedict XVI
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and… — Pope Benedict XVI
And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class… — Kenneth Copeland
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance,… — Richard G. Scott
I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure… — Gordon B. Hinckley
While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from the 'why.' When… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become… — Ernest Hemingway
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us… — Marcel Proust
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own. — Harmon Killebrew
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious… — John McGahern

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