Treasure Quotes - Page 18

• When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

  John Piper

  Pleasure, Highest, Display

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• The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
  Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
  With golden treasures load his little thighs,
  And steer his distant journey through the skies.

  John Gay

  Flower, Journey, Views

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.188

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• Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

  Jeremy Taylor

  People, Evil, Care

  Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.231

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• I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Sleep, Water

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.159

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• It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

  John Locke

  Pain, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1727). “The Works of John Locke”, p.392

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• We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

  John Lubbock

  Wind, Bags, Sailor

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

  Jack London

  Life, Beautiful, World

  Jack London (1983). “The call of the wild ; The cruise of the 'Dazzler'”

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• I'm always inspired by the hidden treasures, unique personalities and New York's overall charm.

  Pamela Love

  New York, Unique, Personality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

  Ben Kingsley

  Giving, Energy, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it's such an exciting place.

  Martin Scorsese

  Country, New York, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

  Bill Bailey

  Beautiful, Guitar, Vintage

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

  John Hay

  Memories, People, Use

  John Hay (1897). “Castilian Days”

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Journalism

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• ...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Balance, Trying

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• We treasure what we can measure.

  Margaret Heffernan

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• All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  New York, Humanity, Essentials

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• Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Life Is, Trifles

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• Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Men, Secret

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• There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Men, Every Man

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Understanding, Reason

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• Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

  Thomas Adcock

  Real, Meaningless Things, Knowing

  Thomas Adcock (1997). “Thrown-Away Child”

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• Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

  Richard G. Scott

  Light, Practice, Receiving

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