#precious

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

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

— Arna Bontemps

#lands #lost #precious #precious thing #some

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. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#audience #kept #life #lives #looked

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#both #both sides #built #europe #how

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is. ↗

— Mick Fleetwood

#how #magic #musical #precious #process

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#liberty #must #precious #rationed #true

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ↗

— John Lennon

#after #cupboard #get #gift #going

Time becomes more precious when you have children. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#children #more #precious #time #you

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. ↗

— John Milton

#good #good book #lifeblood #master #precious

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own