Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Pema Chodron

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

Live each day as if it's a precious Gift, because it is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

Malala Yousafzai

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

Groucho Marx

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

He took something very precious away from the world.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

Sathya Baba

The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations.

Deepak Chopra

I stick them in my wallet. They're more precious than the money.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Paul Engle

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

John Naisbitt

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Ted Nugent

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.

Henry Hazlitt

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Rob Sheffield

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

Richard Simmons

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.