We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
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.
It’s true, too, that I’m tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in ’73. It’s one of the most precious things I’ve won.
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.
We all have different musical instincts, and I think they’re precious and should be respected.
I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
I mean, I could tell that I really had… a precious gift. And I’m so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn’t always happen – and then, what happens when it doesn’t?
Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
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.
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 am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy.
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
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.
I’ve got a lot of jewellery that I love – whether it costs a pound or whatever, it’s all precious to me.
My siblings and I were raised to honor and cherish those who serve. They are, as my father said, America’s most precious resource. I still believe in that vision of the American military. I want my three daughters to believe in it as well.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Sometimes a little compromise isn’t a bad thing. You don’t need to be precious about it.
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.
It’s very precious to me and really important I have that space that’s personal and just to me.
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.
I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There’s a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you’re doing. I think you lose a kind of vitality if you develop something into the ground.
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.
Like any family, like any group – the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy – they’ve had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
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.
Time is so precious with kids that you have to spend as much time with them as you can.
There is precious little that’s charitable about the world of charity.
I’d rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I’d rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a – acceptable to some – synonym.
I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can’t be too precious about your ideas.
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.
Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we’ve also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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.
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.
The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright – and makes me really happy.
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can’t or won’t take action!
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.
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.
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques – precious things that seem to be from another time – and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
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.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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.
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.
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
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.
Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.
