Precious Quotes

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

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.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

And every human being is precious.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

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.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.