Precious Quotes - page 2

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious. (Melanie Griffith)
I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. View quote
Robert Venturi
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious. View quote
Arundhati Roy
What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. View quote
John Dryden
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. View quote
Anthony Burgess
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage. View quote
Octavia Butler
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. View quote
Nhat Hanh
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. (Benjamin Franklin)
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives. View quote
Cesar Chavez
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. View quote
Ho Chí Minh
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. View quote
Carl Sagan
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth. View quote
Matthew Henry
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. View quote
Emily Brontë
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. View quote
Albert Einstein
One thing I have learned in a long life that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. View quote
Albert Einstein
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 to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. (Prem Rawat)
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
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 because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon