Diamond Quotes - Page 21

• 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.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Soul, Mud

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

  Chanakya

  Judging, Black, Coal

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• 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.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, People, Height

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• 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

  Laurie Lee

  Rain, Butterfly, Air

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me.

  Shoaib Akhtar

  Natural, Ends, Bowlers

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• Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Different, Ornaments, May

  Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Complaining, Needs

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• 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.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Dark, Glasses, Light

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife

  Emilie Schindler

  Men, Names, Wife

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• The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.

  Wayne Coyne

  Creativity, Thinking, Singing

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• 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.

  Al Ries

  Cancer, Light, Focus

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• 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.

  Georgina Chapman

  Wedding, Home, Hair

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Bible, Book, Garden

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• Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the sight of the other; they feel romantic affection for no one else; they stretch their finances to buy a diamond ring; they marry. All is bliss-that is, for a season. Then little inconsequential activities lead to criticism. Little flaws are magnified into great torrents of faultfinding; they fall apart, they separate, and then with rancor and bitterness they divorce.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Falling In Love, Anger, Divorce

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Travel, Eye, Sight

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love Is, Self, World

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

  Saraha

  Girl, Dog, Boys

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Army

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Wind, Sea

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• I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Rose, Teeth, Mouths

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Wedding, Eye, People

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• It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Soul, Gold

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• Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.

  Denise Levertov

  Morning, Rain, Winter

  Denise Levertov, “Bearing The Light”

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