Precious Quotes

2044 Precious quotes by 1382 unique authors

If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ.… — Hudson Taylor
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but… — Stephenie Meyer
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead… — Jennifer Egan
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has… — Henri Nouwen
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished… — Mitch Albom
If you find something precious you have to hold onto it with all your might and never let it go inspite of whatever else you… — Novala Takemoto
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. — Ken Follett
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks
As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you… — Jeannette Walls
How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day? — Jerry Spinelli
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.… — Henry James
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But… — Suzanne Collins
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the… — Vera Nazarian
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into… — Ayn Rand
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still… — Kazuo Ishiguro
My Precious, my Precious. — J.R.R. Tolkien
We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it… — Megan Hart
There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are.… — Megan Hart
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds… — Patti Smith
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so… — M. Scott Peck
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while. — Jim Butcher
...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just… — Mitch Albom

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