Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.
Judy Cornett
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am well aware of how precious the Flathead is here in Canada and I am well aware of how precious it is to people in Montana. I am not about to let anything outrageous or irresponsible happen in the Flathead.
Bill Bennett
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. [On her approach to Mad About You].
Helen Hunt
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.
Sean Stewart
There are few things more precious on any university campus than freedom of thought and expression, ... That is the teaching of the First Amendment, and I believe it should be the principle we live by at Columbia University.
Lee Bollinger
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles E. Schumer
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White
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.
Kurt Vonnegut
We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. It's simple. It isn't going to get us anything. It isn't there to augment anything. It's there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.
Maharaji
Every acre is precious. But some of these are parcels that have been identified as surplus to our long-term management objectives.
Carl Holguin
She stayed with Bill until the paramedics came and kept him talking, so Bill wasn't alone. That gift of not leaving him alone when he was hurt like that is the most precious thing she could have done for him and for us.
Michael Davis
Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.
Linda Jones
I am a precious evil.
Anthony Beal
She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. When somebody says that you don't think they're going to try and take the most precious thing in your life.
Bernice Jamison
The kids are just precious, and she was precious.
Pam Killingsworth
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Sir Ralph Richardson
The Basilica ranks as one of the great buildings in Western architecture. At the Baltimore Basilica, it is a newly visible and much more brilliant Latrobe whom we encounter and a newly knowable and much more precious edifice that we have in our care.
Charles Brownell
There will always be those who remember. Our most precious gift is each other.
Daniel Rodriguez
People for a long time had not been interested in the precious metals to any big degree, but now you have started to see them look at them once again as a flight to quality in terms of asset diversification.
Steve Platt
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
Thomas S. Monson
Your friendships are precious. Everything is precious and you don't realize it until, in a heart beat, it can be gone. Your life is precious.
Suzan Spadaro
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.
Robert Reich
Nothing is more precious than freedom.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human.
Tim Hansel
We are thrilled that this day is finally here for Nick. This would not have happened without the precious gift of a new heart given to us by the York family and we are eternally grateful. It's also a bittersweet moment because our other son still needs a heart.
Michael Draper
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Frederick The Great
It was great to finally get it, because I heard most of the guys already got it who were on other teams, and I didn't know when I was going to get it. The (general manager) asked to see me after the game, so I just went, and he gave me my stuff. It was nice. It's pretty precious, and it's going to look good on my fireplace.
Andre Roy
Every drop is precious to us.
Paul Ruskin
Beyond the waters of the Nile, oil and minerals, Southern Sudan has a precious - an infinite - natural resource: the minds, the determination and the potential of her people, especially her children.
Rima Salah
It makes you sick. Eyes are a precious thing.
Darcy Tucker
He took something very precious away from the world.
David Peck
Owning precious metals because you think the world is going to end? Forget it.
Marshall Front
This project is among the very few worldwide that is poised to rapidly come on-line to help meet burgeoning global demand for base and precious metals that we all need and use every day.
William Murray
Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
Marcia Wieder
...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
It's my precious little baby. I could never put a price on them.
Phil Hannon
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Mitch Albom
This exhibition will be a good start for future cooperating between the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum. We will have a series of other exhibitions because the Palace Museum is like a magical precious depository.
Chen Xiejun
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
Anwar Sadat
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
Time is our most precious asset, we should invest it wisely.
Michael Levy
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Lord Chandos
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
I lost my sister and that showed me how precious life really is. We went through that as a family. It was tough. But it made me a better person.
Large Lutui
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
The program takes the control of mercury emissions from precious metals mining to a new level.
Leo Drozdoff
It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
Vladimir Lenin
Faith in God is the most precious gift any parent could give their child.
Kristin Chenoweth
No other growth fund at Fidelity has a precious metals holding in its top 10.
Jim Lowell
We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.
Ravi Shankar
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
Ian McKellen
Because she loves her children. She did not want to kill her children. This was not her decision. She wanted to be able to raise and love and nurture her children, whom she described as precious boys.
Park Dietz
I foresee that the precious metal would reach $800 per ounce by June this year.
Tanvir Abid
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
We are a small family and we don't have that many items that are that expensive, but they are precious to us.
Patricia Hunt
The bottom line is that this deal would allow India to significantly increase its nuclear weapons arsenal and provides precious little safeguarding. This is a nonproliferation nothing-burger, and Congress will see it as that if they look carefully.
Daryl Kimball
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Mark Twain
Just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq because of American weapons used by the Zionists.
Saddam Hussein
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
When you chop the herb you're bruising it -- releasing those precious oils onto the cutting board. I want you to slice it so the oil will release in your mouth when you bite into it.
James Foley
You don't get many shots against Troy. Precious did a good job of moving without the ball, especially on the offensive end.
Robbie Sandoval
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
Michael Milken
I couldn't believe we were really getting to take those precious babies home. Needless to say, we were very excited and nervous at the same time. Oh, I might as well throw in overwhelmed, too.
Melissa Harwell
Our precious Danielle was taken by a monster thinking only of self-gratification.
Brenda Van Dam
We were forced to incur massive costs to defend the bylaw and application to ensure that our backyards are developed in accordance with our desires and that clearly represented smart planning. We are not developers. We do not have endless resources and this appeal used up precious personal resources.
Veroslav Djurdjevic
Some people just aren't as sensitive to the environment as others. The environment is one of our precious resources and needs to be protected. It's a goal that we want to be part of and, of course, have as much fun as possible.
Bill Carlson
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall
These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our precious civil liberties, the things that make this nation great, then indeed the terrorists have won.
Mahdi Bray
There are so many things in Waltham that are precious to us. This is your chance to do something about it.
Frank Maloney
Time is precious. Everyone wants more time.
Scott Cole
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
H Ross Perot
I think the board and the district have lost 90 precious days of progress in solving the problem of growth in this community.
David Chase
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
John Burroughs
It is a very precious and unique environment that we can study these quantum phenomenon, ... It's a quantum workbench for us.
Robert Celotta
If you approach your plans for shady areas in a positive frame of mind, they can become precious and valuable parts of any garden.
Keith Wiley
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Fox leaves office and has precious little to show. He's hoping to pull a rabbit out of his hat.
George Grayson
The plight of California's natural environment is mirrored by the plight of the salamander, ... As the salamander loses its habitat, so too does California lose its precious oak woodlands, grasslands and vernal pools.
Peter Galvin
If there is an economic meltdown, base metals will get hit first. Precious metals are a hedge bet.
Anindya Mohinta
He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.
Christopher Mesnooh
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
Jerome Hines
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!
James Monroe
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
A. Alfred Taubman
That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we are the only ones that have a dispatch center that can dispatch fire and ambulance service throughout the county.
Lesley Sillaman
I designed it initially in such a way that any American could participate. That always ends up being the most precious gift in the care packages.
Carolyn Blashek
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Anwar Sadat
Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
Ed Greenwood
I think his heart was hurting more than his hands were, because his dog was so precious to him.
Mark Oliver
In these days of rapid change, time is precious, and you can't afford to waste it in meetings.
Mark Goulston
The kids are just precious, and (Mary Winkler) was precious. He was the one of the best ministers we've ever had -- just super charisma.
Pam Killingsworth
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
Ambrose Bierce
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
H. R. Haweis
We didn't panic when the clock was running down and worked ourselves into a position from which we could earn these late precious points. The big thing is getting a win under our belts.
Gary Parker
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
Theocritus of Chios
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity.
Larry Lucchino
Diversifying away from dollars has become desirable -- retail investors returned to the precious metals arena in droves this week.
Jon Nadler
I have it framed on a wall in my den. On the inscription she tells me what I meant to her. It's the most precious thing I have from that season. Even now, when I think about it, I get emotional.
Gregg Hostetler
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton
There are many of us (volunteers) that put our heart and soul in this organization. These volunteers are precious, and they need to be treated that way.
Ron Matthews
Employees are these precious commodities right now.
John Kallenborn
The No. 1 rule is to keep yourself safe, ... Nothing is more precious than your life and the lives of your loved ones.
Steve West
It will just be a fun day and celebration from the growth that we've experienced here at the donor center. We can't thank a donor enough, actually, because they're giving something really almost more precious than money, they're giving a part of themselves and without them, what would we do? The patients wouldn't have the blood they need.
Linda Wilson
I think physical health is a top priority. Man is the most precious thing and the most precious thing for man is health. Only by having a strong and healthy body can you enjoy the other things in life. Someone lying on a hospital bed cannot enjoy any of the wonderful things of life.
Feng Jianzhong
The bottom line is that as long as equities remain aloft, there is precious little outside of Fed tightening to cool growth, ... And that tightening may need to be much more aggressive than the market currently expects to bring (economic) growth closer to the Fed's comfort zone of around 3.5 percent.
Doug Porter
What is the good way? It is the path that reflects on how it may avoid killing any living creature. Refrain from taking precious life from any living being, even to save your own life.
The Tirukural
Go across the lawn to the education building and look at those precious pictures, ... All of those people risked their lives to share their faith in this community and beyond, and so must you.
Greg Myers
President Bush says we're safer fighting them there than over here. Why are we safer because 120,000 civilians are dead? What makes their babies less precious than ours?
Cindy Sheehan
God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.
Ted Nugent
Every minute you have together is precious. We can look back on that, those memories, all happy. We always have those. Very good times.
Karla Holwerda
Our shareholders gain a long-term precious metals asset in one of the world's most attractive mining jurisdictions.
Kevin Mcarthur
That, to moms and dads, is more precious than a $5,000 painting. Showing their artwork is a beautiful ... great expression of the love you have for your child.
Nancy Scott
Those people that work up in that building, they get paid and they get paid on time. They get paid well, and they ain't taking care of our most precious possession: our children.
Bertha Lewis
We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.
Roger Toussaint
We [African-Americans] had to have laws enacted to allow us to vote. The right to vote is precious. It didn't come easy.
Monica Brown
I believe it is the most vivid and compelling demonstration that the war in Iraq is not only needlessly taking lives of human beings, but it is needlessly diverting precious resources.
Brian Becker
It doesn't matter how you get your baby, even if it's via FedEx as long as you get to hold your precious baby in your arms. You can have your miracle child.
Cindy Margolis
I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people, ... The best part is I get to go home to my most precious family.
Sissy Spacek
You think about how precious this time is together. We're all on that continuum.
Admiral Sir Alan West
The rich do not possess aught more precious than their Bible...the poor cannot be presented by the rich with anything of greater value...It is a book of councils and directions, fitted to every situation in which man can be placed.
James Mchenry
If you see smoke or fire you know where it is. It's when it's a heart attack or a child poisoned every second, moment of time is precious.
Paul Forte
If you think about it, it's obvious why that's so. They have at their disposal the information which really is the top-secret, most precious, national security information that we have.
Andrew Mccarthy
Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound.
Gina Mccarthy
Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
David Duval
It's good for the season ticket holder, our most precious customer.
Brooks Boyer
We have done precious little to effectively communicate to the hearts and minds and win that long-term war. This seems to be an opportunity to condemn the cartoons and communicate directly with the Muslim people on a host of issues.
Timothy J. Roemer
Precious metals are currently the in-form sector, having recently emerged from lengthy consolidations over the previous eighteen months or more.
David Fuller
For the last 5,326 days, I have wondered what it would be like to confront the walking cesspool that took my mother's precious life.
Jeff Davis
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary
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