#precious

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#develop #each #excesses #extremes #free

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. ↗

— William Whipple

#chicanery #congress #deal #even #gentlemen

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#deprived #encourage #especially #every #fresh

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#life #love #precious-things #life

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

— Samuel Butler

#divine #pearl #precious #rich #swine

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#boy #given #i #i think #little

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american families #biggest #biggest obstacle #consistently

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#freedom #gifts #opportunity #our #our people

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

#did #even #father #gift #i

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! ↗

— James Monroe

#house #lack #liberty #likened #many