#treasure

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#back #decision #enjoyed #federal #federal judge

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#experience #must #other #our #own

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#communist #contract #escape #expand #government

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#good #like #listeners #precious #treasured

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#hidden #sierra #treasure #valley

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#does #heavens #joins #miracles #only