Quotes about Diamond

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Votes: 8

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. Votes: 8

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Votes: 8

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. Votes: 8

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. Votes: 6

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. Votes: 6

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. Votes: 6

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. Votes: 6

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. Votes: 6

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. Votes: 4

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. Votes: 4

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. Votes: 4

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. Votes: 4

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut... Votes: 4

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. Votes: 4

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. Votes: 4

I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring. Votes: 4

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. Votes: 4

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. Votes: 4

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. Votes: 4

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. Votes: 4

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 4

You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars. Votes: 4

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. Votes: 4

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Votes: 4

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. Votes: 4

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. Votes: 4

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw. Votes: 4

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day. Votes: 4

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. Votes: 4

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine. Votes: 4

My hatred is diamond-hard. Votes: 3

A real diamond is never perfect. Votes: 3

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond. Votes: 3

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit. Votes: 3

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty. Votes: 3

Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey Votes: 3

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond. Votes: 3

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. Votes: 3

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond Votes: 3

The world is a diamond cut from our surprise. Votes: 3

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond. Votes: 3

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get. Votes: 3

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. Votes: 3

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. Votes: 3

Forget the diamond, the next time I want a Porsche. Votes: 3

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond. Votes: 3

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. Votes: 3

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight! Votes: 3

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy. Votes: 3

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond. Votes: 3

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty... Votes: 3

A horny Igbo girl's nipple can be used to crush diamond Votes: 3

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. Votes: 3

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake. Votes: 3

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond. Votes: 3

I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed. Votes: 3

He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond Votes: 3

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. Votes: 3

Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten. Votes: 3

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. Votes: 3

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out. Votes: 3

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. Votes: 3

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job Votes: 3

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. Votes: 3

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond. Votes: 3

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. Votes: 3

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones. Votes: 3

When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond. Votes: 3

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job. Votes: 3

It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass. Votes: 3

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. Votes: 3

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond. Votes: 3

Thou turnest worthless stones into glittering diamonds and a precious diamond into flying dust. Votes: 3

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. Votes: 3

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. Votes: 3

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun. Votes: 3

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. Votes: 3

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. Votes: 3

Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond Votes: 3

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water! Votes: 3

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. Votes: 3

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. Votes: 3

It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee. Votes: 3

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold. Votes: 3

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. Votes: 3

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. Votes: 3

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. Votes: 3

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. Votes: 3

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial. Votes: 3

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. Votes: 3

Greatest gift that we can give is not a piece of diamond, but our unconditional love. Votes: 3

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure. Votes: 3

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. Votes: 3

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. Votes: 3

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. Votes: 3

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck! Votes: 3

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16. Votes: 3

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself. Votes: 3

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase. Votes: 3

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond. Votes: 3

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant. Votes: 3

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different. Votes: 3

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond. Votes: 3

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa. Votes: 3

There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. Votes: 3

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond Votes: 3

My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring. Votes: 3

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light . Votes: 3

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. Votes: 3

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. Votes: 3

I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that. Votes: 3

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. Votes: 3

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned. Votes: 3

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. Votes: 3

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. Votes: 3

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel. Votes: 3

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws. Votes: 3

Mitt Romney had a fundraiser in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them. Votes: 3

I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up. Votes: 3

The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. Votes: 3

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. Votes: 3

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory. Votes: 3

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. Votes: 3

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads. Votes: 3

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are. Votes: 3

Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure. Votes: 3

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands Votes: 3

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up. Votes: 3

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field. Votes: 3

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. Votes: 3

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea... Votes: 3

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands. Votes: 3

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again. Votes: 3

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet. Votes: 3

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul. Votes: 3

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. Votes: 3

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself. Votes: 3

Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again. Votes: 3

I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace. Votes: 3

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. Votes: 3

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. Votes: 3

Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources. Votes: 3

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- Votes: 3

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. Votes: 3

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape. Votes: 3

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. Votes: 3

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 3

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing. Votes: 3

Running is real. It's all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. Votes: 3

You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines. Votes: 3

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. Votes: 3

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Votes: 3

If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks. Votes: 3

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed. Votes: 3

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things. Votes: 3

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming. Votes: 3

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. Votes: 3

Madonna, eat your heart out, Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10-million plus. Votes: 3

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. Votes: 3

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless. Votes: 3

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content. Votes: 3

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. Votes: 3

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. Votes: 3

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair. Votes: 3

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes. Votes: 3

I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets. Votes: 3

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand Votes: 3

Why are there not positive mysteries? It's always who stole the diamond, or who killed the butler? How about... who made cookies, somebody cleaned my room. Votes: 3

Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it! Votes: 3

Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge! Votes: 3

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Votes: 3

Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love. Votes: 3

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring. Votes: 3

Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul. Votes: 3

You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring. Votes: 3

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. Votes: 3

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. Votes: 3

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. Votes: 3

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Votes: 3

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. Votes: 3

All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist. Votes: 3

A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing. Votes: 3

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. Votes: 3

When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade. Votes: 3

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station Votes: 3

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. Votes: 3

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady.... Votes: 3

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Votes: 3

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole. Votes: 3

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways. Votes: 3

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. Votes: 3

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. Votes: 3

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. Votes: 3

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things Votes: 3

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. Votes: 3

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz. Votes: 3

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.Can't be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone Votes: 3

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.' Votes: 3

Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond. They have together since the beginning of time- Side by side, step by step. Votes: 3

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Votes: 3

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth. Votes: 3

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond. Votes: 3

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust. Votes: 3

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. Votes: 3

Her idea of a romantic setting is one that has a diamond in it. If you feel the need to marry a doctor, I suggest a dermatologist. Good hours, free Retin-A. Votes: 3

You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants. Votes: 3

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth. Votes: 3

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. Votes: 3

The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being. Votes: 3

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand. Votes: 3

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market. Votes: 3

The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful. Votes: 3

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. Votes: 3

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights. Votes: 3

Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. Votes: 3

pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.... Votes: 3

You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me. Votes: 3

The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end. Votes: 3

The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil. Votes: 3

I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when? Votes: 3

Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way... Votes: 3

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first. Votes: 3

The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose. Votes: 3

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. Votes: 3

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself Votes: 3

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school. Votes: 3

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers Votes: 3

I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four! Votes: 3

In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market. Votes: 3

What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves. Votes: 3

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. Votes: 3

Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on their diamond-encrusted yacht? And why did they bring so many clothes?" -Riley Votes: 3

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us. Votes: 3

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free. Votes: 3

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe. Votes: 3

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. Votes: 3

As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love. Votes: 3

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat. Votes: 3

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice. Votes: 3

His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing. Votes: 3

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young. Votes: 3

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second. Votes: 3

Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned the cross so it once again hung over Butch's heart. "You did well, cop. Congratulations, true? Votes: 3

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace. Votes: 3

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty. Votes: 3

There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions. Votes: 3

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me. Votes: 3

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. Votes: 3

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. Votes: 3

For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond. Votes: 3

Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven. Votes: 3

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark... Votes: 3

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities. Votes: 3

They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try. Votes: 3

A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty. Votes: 3

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946.... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz. Votes: 3

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years. Votes: 3

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially; later making a leather shoe; then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top; going to make a real diamond shoe! Votes: 3

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer. Votes: 3

It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible. Votes: 3

Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah Votes: 3

I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up. Votes: 3

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt. Votes: 3

The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality. Votes: 3

We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity. Votes: 3

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence. Votes: 3

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. Votes: 3

Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor. Votes: 3

Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill. Votes: 3

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'. Votes: 3

As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness. Votes: 3

As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it. Votes: 3

Us. All regrets, left them in the sea, smiling at life as if it was a beautiful dream, because if one thing is certain, clearing the strange foreigh steam. Like the diamond ring that fits in your finger, we are stronger as a steel linker Votes: 3

These were strange caricatures of human beings, weirdly inflated, their breasts enormous spheres, held in place by string bikinis with cups the size of fourteen-meter yacht spinnakers. Their legs were elongated too, their toes pointed straight downward into high-heeled shoes steeper than double black-diamond ski runs. Votes: 3

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do. Votes: 3

Many in America, as one social historian wrote, 'believed implicitly that New York's social leaders went to bed in full evening dress, brushed their teeth in vintage champagne, married their daughters without exception to shady French counts, and arrayed their poodle dogs in diamond tiaras.'... Votes: 3

Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles. Votes: 3

The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love. Votes: 3

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more. Votes: 3

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. Votes: 3

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond. Votes: 3

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes. Votes: 3

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all Votes: 3

We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged. Another example would be one of the largest Russian diamond mining companies in the world. We are privatizing part of our stake in that as well. Votes: 3

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. Votes: 3

I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed. Votes: 3

The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden. Votes: 3

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone. Votes: 3

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. Votes: 3

Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest. Votes: 3

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great. Votes: 3

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat. Votes: 3

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. Votes: 3

You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient Votes: 3

And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. Votes: 3

No pressure, no diamonds. Votes: 2

Big girls need big diamonds. Votes: 2

Diamonds never leave you... men do! Votes: 2

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. Votes: 2

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute! Votes: 2

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. Votes: 2

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Votes: 2

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject. Votes: 2

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. Votes: 2

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond. Votes: 2

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Votes: 2

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Votes: 2

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. Votes: 2

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Votes: 2

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Votes: 2

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. Votes: 2

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song. Votes: 2

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Votes: 2

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. Votes: 2

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. Votes: 2

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' Votes: 2

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. Votes: 2

Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic. Votes: 2

It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special. Votes: 2

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.' Votes: 2

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it? Votes: 2

"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self... Votes: 0

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal] Votes: 0

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). Votes: 0

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? Votes: 0

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul. Votes: 0

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive. Votes: 0

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. Votes: 0

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. Votes: 0

It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl. Votes: 0

It was great. No one else had one but me." Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl Votes: 0

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond. Votes: 0

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records. Votes: 0

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department. Votes: 0

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine. Votes: 0

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong. Votes: 0

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book. Votes: 0

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them. Votes: 0

Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. Votes: 0

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun. Votes: 0

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed. Votes: 0