Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
Rod Paige

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
Vince Clarke

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
David Duval

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee

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

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
George Segal

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.
Andrew Jackson

Every hour of useful work is precious.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
Jennifer Connelly

Everything matters. Time is precious.
Jessica Hagedorn

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.
Jeanne Tripplehorn

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

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Lyn Nofziger

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne

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

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

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.
J. Donald Walters

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
Jerome Hines