Diamond Quotes - Page 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.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Balls, Clubs

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• You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Rough

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

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Producers, Executives

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• If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Witty, Women

  Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• 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.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Sorry, Done

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Wool, Jewelry

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• It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

  Anthony Anderson

  Trying, Action, Stealing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Edward Young

  Cutting, Sound, Beam

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.204

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

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Hands, Fool

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Our World, Space

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Gold, Digging

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Sleep, Dark

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

  Jill St. John

  Forever, Youth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

  Ron White

  Minutes

  Ron White (2007). “I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability”, p.16, Penguin

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• A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Coal, Pressure, Jewelry

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  Quoted in Observer (London), 28 Aug. 1957

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• But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami - but the diamonds will keep me cool.

  Lil' Kim

  Covered Up, Skins, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

  Patti LaBelle

  Party, Years, Shoes

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Player

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• My hatred is diamond-hard.

  Jim Goad

  Hatred, Hard

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• The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

  Ben Weaver

  Cutting, World, Chaos

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