Black Diamonds Quotes

• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cutting, Black, Diamond

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• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

  Sara Sheridan

  Sky, Black, Crystals

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• I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

  Justin Bieber

  Black, Diamond, Flashy

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• 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

  Claudia Black

  Running, Ideas, My Boyfriend

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Believe, People

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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