Best 463 quotes in «treasure quotes» category

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things?

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here.

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

The journey is the treasure.

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.

The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you