Diamond Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Suzy Kassem

  Angel, Evil, Rose

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Giving, Exaltation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

  Philip Massinger

  Gold, Sparkle, Horns

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• 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.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Precious Stones, Vices, May

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

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• I used to think that diamonds were a girl's best friend, but now I realize it's carbohydrates. Seriously, I have a French baguette at home sporting a matching friendship bracelet.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Home, Thinking

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• One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mom, Grandmother, Years

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  Sam Kinison

  Nice, Rap, Men

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• Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

  Josef Albers

  Depth, Rubies, Pebbles

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Fun, Night, Shining

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2009

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• Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

  Ingrid Weir

  Over You, Dumb, Trying

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• Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Rose, Should

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2014

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• The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Perception, Body

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Gold, Scarcity

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Management, Economics

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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• 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

  Alicia Keys

  Baby, Mean, People

  Song: If I Ain't Got You, Album: The Diary of Alicia Keys, 2003

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• At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

  Aberjhani

  Pearls, Madness, Howl

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the tip of her staff on fire. Our ghostly pal Setne floated behind her, grinning with delight. "There is it!" Setne shook his diamond pink rings. "Told ya Apophis would send a monster to kill you." "You're so smart!" I shouted. "Now, how do we stop it?

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Fire, Monsters

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• If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing.  Money is a 'nothing' thing.

  Jacque Fresco

  Islands, Water, Wife

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• We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.” They looked at me. “Why the head?” Doolittle asked. “Because it’s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn’t just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Faces, Easy

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.177, Penguin

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• 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.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Naps, Necks

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that sharp-nosed aunt of yours catching us when we find the diamonds." "What diamonds?" "Think positive for once...Which would you rather, diamonds or the remains of a murdered maidservant? It's all a question of attitude.

  Kerstin Gier

  Attitude, Aunt, Thinking

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• Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

  James de la Vega

  Morning, Business, Tears

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• God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

  Diana Vreeland

  Oil, Style, Fairs

  "D.V".

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• Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

  Jann Arden

  Life Is Like, Stones, Life Is

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