Precious Quotes

2044 Precious quotes by 1382 unique authors

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't… — Lorraine Hansberry
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to… — Rudolf Bultmann
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like… — Thomas Carlyle
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,… — Clement Freud
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. — David O. McKay
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious… — Camille Pissarro
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.... — Claude McKay
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this:… — Joan Halifax
My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is… — Charles Kingsley
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can… — Satchel Paige
Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful? — Laozi
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it… — Richard G. Scott
No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds… — Charles Baudelaire
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses -… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. — John Bunyan
I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she… — Louie Gohmert
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. — Phyllis Schlafly

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