Precious Quotes
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
Nicholas Sparks
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The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
Paul Farmer
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Children are precious gifts to us all.
Katrina Mayer
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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
John Milton
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
Nicholas Sparks
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The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
Adolph Kolping
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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
William Shakespeare
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I look at writing as a medium of entertainment. You can get too precious about your stuff. It has to compete with everything else, like DVDs and CDs.
Andy McNab
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It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.
Benjamin McKenzie
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.
Neil Cross
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
Courtney Milan
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
Alan Bennett
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
Evelyn Waugh
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What people consider precious is different for everybody.
Ai Yazawa
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus
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The prize of all too precious you.
William Shakespeare
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Life is too precious to be left to chance
Walter Moers
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus
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God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.
Mother Teresa
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Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
Norman Cousins
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
Mother Teresa
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How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
Elizabeth von Arnim