Precious Quotes

2044 Precious quotes by 1382 unique authors

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace… — Laurence Sterne
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out… — Eckhart Tolle
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was… — Tanith Lee
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious… — Boyd K. Packer
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. — Kate DiCamillo
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. — Willa Cather
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost — Amiri Baraka
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to… — Barack Obama
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. — Raymond Chandler
But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you… — Meg Cabot
There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is… — Henry B. Eyring
Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not… — Cecelia Ahern
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future… — Obert Skye
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is… — Alfred de Musset
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. — Terry Pratchett
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to… — W. Somerset Maugham
I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the… — Fulton J. Sheen
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now… — Ayn Rand
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to… — Christopher Paolini
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark,… — Oswald Chambers
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very… — Winston Churchill
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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