
Top 100 Precious Thing Quotes
#1. Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
#2. B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.
Yoseob
#3. She was the most precious thing in the world to him. So beautiful, so sweet, so giving and too damn good for him, but he was a selfish bastard and wouldn't let her go.
R.L. Mathewson
#4. In a world of prophecy and war, where so much of my life followed a path laid out by duty and destiny,Tristan had enough strength to give me what no one else could. The one precious thing I needed the most. A choice.
Emma Raveling
#5. If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?
CLAMP
#6. The fundamental mistake I had always made ... was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (pg. 199)
John Green
#7. It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#9. Christians need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to love those who disagree with them. And the greatest expression of love is to share with them the most precious thing a Christian has, which is the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Brother Andrew
#11. 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 to a proud shine?
Mitch Albom
#13. Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
Kate Mosse
#14. You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.
Wu Ming-Yi
#15. Her relationship with Jason was suddenly the most precious thing in the world to her; in that moment she loved him with all the remorseful passion that only a guilty heart could muster. From
Sam West
#16. [On Time] Men trifle with the most precious thing in the world; but they are blind to it because it is an incorporeal thing, because it does not come beneath the sight of the eyes, and for this reason it is counted a very cheap thing - nay, of almost no value at all.
Seneca.
#17. Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.
Richard M. Nixon
#18. My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
#19. My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.
Lily James
#20. We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
Paul Prudhomme
#21. What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing!
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#22. 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.
Robert Collier
#24. Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders ...
Mark Twain
#25. For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
Cher
#26. There's the kind of camaraderie that comes from leaning on someone in battle, and it's powerful. It's not too hard to trust someone to want to keep you alive. But trusting someone to actually live with you, to walk beside you - that is a fragile, precious thing.
Emmie Mears
#27. Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
Arna Bontemps
#29. Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.
Sherry Petersik
#30. Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
Vladimir Lenin
#31. To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Anthony Burgess
#32. What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#33. No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.
Ayn Rand
#34. The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
George MacDonald
#35. If you have life you have money but if you have money you don't have life,for life is like every precious thing you need
ABC
#36. I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.
Paulo Coelho
#37. It seems a precious thing, for someone to know the very worst part of you and love you anyway.
A.C. Gaughen
#38. Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. 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
#40. My private life is the most precious thing to me.
Leona Lewis
#41. For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.
Preeti Shenoy
#42. She did not know what sort of person he was. But she thought---she hoped---that he would hold her trust as the fragile, precious thing it was.
Theresa Romain
#43. So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.
George R R Martin
#44. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
#45. You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
Ben Feldman
#47. It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, "she said, "is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.
Candace Bushnell
#48. Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.
Eudora Welty
#49. I'd discovered that when the most precious thing in your life could slip through
your fingers, investments, money, those
things suddenly meant absolutely jack.
Spencer Blackwell
Fisher Amelie
#50. Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I'd just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time ... what an absolute horror-inducing word
Rachel Van Dyken
#51. Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.
Philippa Gregory
#54. Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
John Naisbitt
#55. We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#57. The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
David Attenborough
#58. He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
Czeslaw Milosz
#59. 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 life.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#60. Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
Gene Wilder
#61. I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.
L.A. Meyer
#62. I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.
Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing.
Patrick Rothfuss
#63. She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?"
I kissed the top of her head. "Cherish it like it's the most precious thing on the face of the earth.
Abbi Glines
#64. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
Jonathan Lethem
#65. Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Daphne Du Maurier
#67. Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.
Dalai Lama
#68. Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that
makes you want to live. And when you've found it, hold on to it with one
hand, and use the other to claw your way back home.
-Ripple
Valjeanne Jeffers
#69. I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.
Pope Francis
#70. 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 of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhart Tolle
#71. Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.
Stephen King
#72. It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French
#73. With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it.
You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile.
Theresa Smith
#74. The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.
Edith Schaeffer
#75. 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.
Albert Einstein
#76. It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
Richard Scarry
#77. We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.
Anthony Esolen
#78. If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
Yoshida Kenko
#79. It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.
Ralph Maxwell
#80. Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
David Duval
#81. Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl.
John Green
#82. You are my heart. The most beautiful and precious thing in my world. Don't forget that.
Kahlen Aymes
#83. 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.
Judith Hill
#84. There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.
James Carville
#85. I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
George MacDonald
#86. Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.
Brian Cox
#87. Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
George Crabbe
#88. It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.
Jonathan Ive
#89. Most of all I'm mad at Swanee for dying and taking from me the most precious thing I ever owned. I didn't own her, but she was mine. Mine, Liana. Do you hear me?
Julie Anne Peters
#90. Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
Eudora Welty
#91. The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world
Kim Heechul
#92. life is delicate, its fragile, it's a precious thing. you never know when you're going to lose it. Live life when you can because you never know which second will be your last.
Patricia Vanasse
#93. Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
Philippa Gregory
#94. Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
Arthur Golden
#95. We can't separate stupidity from that crazy and precious thing called love, as the gravity responsible for falling into love has its own rules...
Ankit Rawat
#96. Hope and light and motion, her soul whispered. Hope and formation and fusion, Hope and heat and accretion. The miracle of gravity. The miracle of transformation. Each precious thing is destroyed and each precious thing is saved. Hope, hope, hope.
Kelly Barnhill
#97. Hope is a precious thing, isn't it," she says. "And yet, we don't really appreciate it until it's gone.
Amy Ewing
#99. The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
#100. Does it matter to you that I love you?" Julian asked as he looked away and up at the house.
Cameron stared at Julian, wishing he could see his lover's eyes.
"It's the most precious thing in my world," he answered brokenly.
Abigail Roux
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