In this post, you will find great Precious Quotes from famous people, such as Adam Wingard, Herodotus, Andre Gide, Roger Moore, Michael Dirda. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
There’s no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.
Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn’t yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
We can’t lose precious time debating legislation that won’t work.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We’re all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
I think I’m very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.
Everything matters. Time is precious.
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.
Once are such precious people, and I wouldn’t trade our bond for anything.
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you’re synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It’s called microfluidics.
Life is very precious.
I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.
I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good… but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
Summer is very precious.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
Let’s not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
I’m not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.
Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I’m always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.
The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn’t own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don’t ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
As I’ve said before, time is short, and life is precious.
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times – the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.
Creativity is an energy. It’s a precious energy, and it’s something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they’re a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can’t be taken for granted.
One thing I’ve learned to do with my age, I really don’t look ahead. For years, I’ve been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
Truth is life’s most precious commodity.
I think that every day should be savored, and so a lot of ‘Stop Where You Are’ comes out of that idea that life is really precious, the people around us are precious, and every single moment is worth celebrating.
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
I’m old-school English, so I suppose I’m quite protective – especially of time. Now that I’m a father, every moment is precious.
There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn’t have spent your precious – irreplaceable – time on it.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
My private life is the most precious thing to me.
I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can’t actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.
I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you’ve taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you’ve not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That’s almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
Liberty: One of Imagination‘s most precious possessions.
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can’t be too precious about your ideas.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
My hatred is precious. I don’t want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
God has a team. It’s made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt ‘Push‘ – an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire – for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious’ fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.
I don’t trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?
I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don’t even really need.
My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.
I don’t know if there’s a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it’s most likely not a genius for planning. It’s a propensity for action – and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.
Year 2020 was special. After everything that we went through, including the fact that my family battled COVID19, I believe that we are a tiny part of this large universe. Every second we spend here is precious, and so we must live in the moment and enjoy it. We should stop thinking we’re too important.
The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.
I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.
That’s the thing about ‘The Daily Show‘ – we’re doing four shows a week, so we can’t be too precious about what’s going on.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter… the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we’ve endured.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Whenever I’m trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. ‘Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?’ ‘Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?’ ‘Is this a way to ‘Be Gretchen?’ and ‘Will this help connect me to my past?’
We don’t ever realize how precious life is while we’re living it.
There is precious little that’s charitable about the world of charity.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
Time is so precious with kids that you have to spend as much time with them as you can.
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it’s our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
I never talk about my private life. When you’re in this business it becomes so precious. I don’t understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.
I have always been fascinated with precious stones, especially colored ones, and knew that I would eventually join the family business and be a jewelry designer some day.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the importance of having safe and accessible public lands as outdoor spaces in which to reflect and grow. We are all responsible for being stewards of these precious lands and keeping these natural treasures safe for generations to come.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
Reading time is precious. Don’t waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
I believe that friendship is life’s most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
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.
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
There are very few things in this world more powerful, or precious, than a mother’s love for her child.
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
I’ve said this before, and I’m sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren’t a lot more women in stand-up – and there are many more now; it’s not parity, but it’s getting there – is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They’re socialized to be pretty and precious.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
I could not have written a novel if I hadn’t been a journalist first, because it taught me that there’s no muse that’s going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I’m definitely not precious.
Life is a precious gift – a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
I just didn’t want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don’t even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.
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.
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 of life! Some people are squandering the world’s most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques – precious things that seem to be from another time – and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature – these are the only objects worth being attached to.
I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I’m really not like that. Because fame is… I don’t think it is something interesting or precious.
You know, there’re no rules between Russell and I. We don’t want to have to have to talk too much, because it’s really precious, really special to play music.
My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the People’s Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.
Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence – charging up the same hill again and again. But that’s not quite what I mean by the word ‘grit.’ You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.
Collaboration is no longer painful – or precious.
Whether it was expanding healthcare, stimulating the local economy and job growth, innovating in the schools, or protecting our precious environmental resources, Deval focused every day on moving Massachusetts forward.
Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Just being alive, staying human, I think that’s infinitely precious.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
The most precious resource we have is time.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
I still vividly remember the moment I let go of an embrace with my daughter on her college campus – that, in her opinion, probably lasted far too long. I left the most precious thing in my life in the care of an institution, and that’s a very hard thing to do.
Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company – Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there’s a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
We’re all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
I’m not going to be precious about the fact that I’m not getting all these other particular roles because there’s nothing wrong with the ones I’m getting. It doesn’t matter if I play cops for the rest of my life. That’s called a career.
My mum thinks I’m amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
I’m an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.
I don’t waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don’t understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.
A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I’ve no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones – precious stones – and say that I could do anything with precious stones.
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature’s most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
To me, the time in the car is very precious, and I want to fully enjoy it.
The good thing about people who are corporate is that they’re stupid. So they can be touching something that’s precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
The vote is precious. It’s almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
Often, I find it really hard to see what I’m doing when I’m in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There’s a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I’ll realise which ones are working and which aren’t.
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
I’ve been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that’s very precious.
I think it’s very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I’m 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They’re aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.
We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree with you.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
I’m controlling over anything I create. I’m very precious about it.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all – liberty!
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn’t believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.
We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do.
Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
Diamond planets truly are the most precious.
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
Life is too precious to be squandered for fame or love.
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
I’ve grown up with girls that are like Precious. I’ve grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we’re not making it up.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
Intrinsic motivation is one of learning’s most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the location of every sett in the woods around my childhood home, but rarely saw them with my own eyes.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource – the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections… Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
There is nothing more precious than our country.
I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They’re conscious of the fact that people can – even from mobile phones – begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs… so they’re a lot more hesitant to play them.
The memories of my time with Jonghyun are precious to me. He’s like family to me, so I will never forget him and I will always keep him in my heart.
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
I think life is precious from beginning to end.
Life is precious, and when someone dies it’s an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn’t. It really crushed him.
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so trampled.
I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God’s forgiveness.
Don’t get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.
I’ve titled this book ‘Eighty Is Not Enough’ not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
I am fortunate to be successful. People’s love is precious to me. I can never take that for granted.
Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can’t overstate how how precious that feels – it’s as though you’re having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.
It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
It’s a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It’s much riskier than staying indoors. It’s complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
Time is the most precious resource there is – you have to protect it.
Truthfully, I almost avoided ‘While You Were Sleeping,’ because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they’re full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Take life for what it is, which is very precious, and that’s what moments happen.
Food isn’t like anything else. It’s something precious. It’s not a commodity.
Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be – in the view of many – cataclysmic.
You get so close to your own music that you can’t see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It’s good to be less precious.
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they end up knowing more and more about less and less. It’s a malaise that has now infected A-levels and GCSEs.
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you – as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.
I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Basketball‘s just something temporary that we do and we’re blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.
This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.
It’s very precious to me and really important I have that space that’s personal and just to me.
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you’re always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it’s always a mad scramble. It’s amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn’t walk away with the ball.
I just don’t care that much about the band name. I’m not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made ‘Transangelic Exodus‘ because I guess we didn’t feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.
Life is precious.
Every life is precious.
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they’re any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they’re not good. They’re flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
I’m not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that’s frequently ephemeral.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they’re mine.
Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.
Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
If in the script there is an argument about gun control, the most precious document you could produce at ‘The West Wing’ that week is a passionate, intelligent case against gun control. We know how to do the other one.
I’ve been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it’s comfortable for them to be who they are. That’s precious for children.
Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.
God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. ‘Please don’t take away our precious Soviet Union! – We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!’
Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn’t work either.
I think one’s relationship with one’s vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
I shot a gun one time in New Zealand. An entertainment news program there thought, since the band was called Semi Precious Weapons, they would bring us to a gun range.
The world, when you look at it, it just can’t be random. I mean, it’s so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we’ve seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
Life is short, and every moment is precious.
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
