Precious Quotes
2044 Precious quotes by 1382 unique authors
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so…
— Gabriel Marcel
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My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely…
— Hayley Mills
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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods…
— John Templeton
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If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs…
— Frank Bolles
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A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.
— Charles Eisenstein
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Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
— Robert Muller
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Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in…
— Nhat Hanh
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My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds…
— Carl Honore
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
— A. A. Gill
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One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance…
— Paul Davies
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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best…
— Alanis Morissette
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I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think…
— Bob Dylan
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I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
— John Steinbeck
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
— Anandamayi Ma
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In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one…
— Jane Jacobs
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Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious…
— Milos Forman
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Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time…
— George Vaillant
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One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or…
— Derek Jarman
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One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source…
— Eric Burdon
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Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
— Hugh Reginald Haweis
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