Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable.
– Saul Bellow
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- Maybe America didn’t need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we. – Saul Bellow
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- The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. – Saul Bellow
- Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
- You are the greatest treasure if you are your greatest treasure treasure – Evy Michaels
- Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don’t learn to treasure the moments, you’ll never be able to treasure the memories. – Janette Oke
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- The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded. – Zhuangzi
- Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window. – Daniel Silva
- Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. – Douglas Adams
- The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. – Victor Hugo
- Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don’t let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all. – Donavan Nelson Butler
- We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. – Aaron Sorkin
- Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. – Ron Suskind
- Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
- Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you. – Ryan Lilly
- What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. – Edgar Z Friedenberg
- Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him. – Helmut Thielicke