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.
‘Precious’ is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in ‘Precious,’ but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Truly, we do live on a ‘water planet.’ For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It’s the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we’re facing.
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
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.
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.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
I believe that friendship is life’s most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.
Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy – essential to keeping it alive.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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.
Life is an overwhelming bundle of loose threads. The ones you can hang on to are precious.
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
I realise how precious life is, probably because I’ve seen how it can be taken away.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.
With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that’s the first lesson you learn. You can’t be real precious. When you’re doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It’s a different animal.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Every life is precious.
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.
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.
As I’ve said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Comedians… they’re different from actors. There’s more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they’re more precious.
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 striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Once are such precious people, and I wouldn’t trade our bond for anything.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don’t want to see it; I’d rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don’t want to see people embodying those people.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
Yorkshire knew how important Scarborough was for me. So I was awarded my county cap there in 2011. That first cap is one of the most precious things I own. The club didn’t tell me that I’d be receiving it, but instead tipped off my mum, making sure she saw the presentation.
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.
As a comedian, Trump is comedy gold, and he almost makes my job too easy… the stuff that comes out of his mouth is a precious commodity.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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.
I’d be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn’t precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.
People are misers of mental effort. If we don’t have the interest or the capacity to look into the arguments, if the message isn’t personally relevant, if we judge that we already know all we need to know about a topic, there is no reason to spend precious mental resources.
I think any time you hear that you’re about to paralyze yourself, or even worse, it’s just scary because you start to realize how precious life is.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.
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.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I’ve been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I’m going to pour it everywhere.
I don’t get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can’t get that time back.
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.
If I’d had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would have pressed it multiple times. I felt totally out of my depth. I had no money and there was precious little infrastructure so I had to barter to survive.
Diamond planets truly are the most precious.
