Precious Quotes

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Benjamin Disraeli
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli

Mary H.K. Choi
“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

Cassandra Clare
“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.
Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.”
Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

Erik Pevernagie
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
Erik Pevernagie

Sapphire
“Depression is anger turned inward.”
Sapphire, Push

“Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back.
-Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao”
Watsuki Nobuhiro

Marvin Gaye
“To share is precious, pure and fair.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?”
Marvin Gaye

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“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.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Shaun Jeffrey
“Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.”
Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

Georgette Heyer
“The youngest Merriville, bursting into the room some time later, found them seated side by side on the sofa. 'Buddle said I wasn't to disturb you, but I knew that was fudge,' he said scornfully. 'Cousin Alverstoke, there is someting I particularly wanted to ask you!' He broke off, perceiving suddenly, and with disfavour, that his Cousin Alverstoke had an arm round Frederica. Revolted by such a betrayal of unmanliness, he bent a disapproving look upon his idol and demanded: 'Why are you cuddling Frederica, sir?'
'Because we are going to be married,' replied his lordship calmly. 'It's obligatory, you know. One is expected to -er - cuddle the lady one is going to marry.'
'Oh!' said Felix. 'Well, I won't ask anyone to marry me , if that's what you have to do! I just say I never thought that you sir would have-' Again he broke off, as a thought struck him. 'Will that make her a - a She-Marquis? Oh, Jessamy, did you hear that? Frederica is going to be a She-Marquis!'
'What you mean is a Marchioness, you ignorant little ape!' replied his austere brother.”
Georgette Heyer, Frederica

Silvia Hartmann
“The most precious thing I have to give is my time.”
Silvia Hartmann

“A relationship that is truly genuine does not keep changing its colors. Real gold never rusts. If a relationship is really solid and golden, it will be unbreakable. Not even Time can destroy its shine.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Clamp
“Kurogane: That's what you want, isn't it? Underneath that constant grin, you're keeping everyone away. So that nobody gets involved with you. But look. Just now you checked to see if the kid had a fever, and you're relieved that the princess doesn't see the wretched condition of this world. And in the last country, you used your magic.
Fai: *smiling* I said it, didn't I? I wasn't going to die. And so...
Kurogane: Yeah, but that was all about you not dying on your own account. Dying for somebody else... That's a whole new question. Back then, if you hadn't done anything, we would have been captured, and if we handled it wrong, we might have died. But you decided to use magic on your own. You involved yourself in their lives.
Fai: *no longer smiling, looks depressed* I... I don't want to make anyone unhappy because of their involvement with me. ”
Clamp

Chaim Potok
“> Why does everything that lives have to die?
< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.”
Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then that I didn't ever want to be like that. Whatever happened, life was something too precious to give up on so easily.”
Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread

Marilynne Robinson
“How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Amy Leigh Mercree
“Love drips like honey from the hive, constant, sweet, precious, into your heart each and every moment if you let it.”
Amy Leigh Mercree

Clamp
“Mokona: Please! Fai is about to die! Yûko!
Fai: Y... You... can't... While I'm still ailve... Syaoran-kun's magic still lives. Even half of that power is too much... Nothing... will be able to stop him.
Mokona: Fai!!
Kurogane: *punches hole in wall* Who told you to make that decision now?!
Mokona: No! Kurogane!! *Kurogane grabs Fai by the collar*
Fai: Sorry... *Fai collapses*
Kurogane: Witch... Is there any way to keep him from dying?
Yûko: Yes, there is.”
Clamp, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 16

Rush
“Though we might have precious little
It's still precious

I like that song about this wonderful world
It's got a sunny point of view
And sometimes I feel it's true
At least for a few of us
I like that world, it makes a wonderful song
But there's a darker point of view
But sadly just as true
For so many among us

Though we might have precious little
It's still precious

In the sweetest child there's a vicious streak
In the strongest man there's a child so weak
In the whole wide world there's no magic place
So you might as well rise put on your bravest face

I like that show where they solve all the murders
An heroic point of view
It's got justice and vengeance too
At least so the story goes
I like that story, makes a satisfying case
But there's a messy point of view
That's sadly just as true
For so many among us

In softest voice there's an acid tongue
In the oldest eyes there's a soul so young
In the shakiest will there's a core of steel
On the smoothest ride there's a squeaky wheel

Though we might have precious little
It's still precious”
Rush

Sapphire
“Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing.”
Sapphire "Push"

“I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.”
Akilnathan Logeswaran

Anita R. Sneed-Carter
“Time is precious, so use it wisely in every area of your life including having a relationship with God through"The Door", Jesus Christ! No one knows how much time that they have to live, so don't allow time to run out on you!”
Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Sarah K.L. Wilson
“Always, time is our worst enemy, stealing away what is most precious to me.”
Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

Mitch Albom
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“At the point that we’ve forgotten how precious a single human life is, we have begun the inexcusable process of assassinating our own humanity.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only few teach us what to do, that is precious. But often there are many who teach us what not to do, which is priceless.”
Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

Manon Desveaux
“J'ai aimé chaque moment avec toi.”
Manon Desveaux, La fille dans l'écran

“The grace of God is seen. He has to discipline a disobedient pair but he doesn't have to disinherit!”
Jim Bill McInteer, Precious and Powerful Woman of God

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