Pearls Quotes - Page 16

• I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Tired, Filled Up, Sky

  "Bihar al-anwar" by al-'Allama al-Majlisi, ol.2, p. 3,

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• Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

  Mary Butts

  Frogs, Cups, Bottom

  Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company

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• The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

  Michael Buble

  Gun, Artist, Impact

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• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

  Johnny Marr

  Book, Guitar, Trying

  "Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2013.

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• I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Black, Wish, Six

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Sea, Silence, Argument

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• It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

  Linda Sunshine

  Flower, Thoughtful, Doctors

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

  Nicholson Baker

  Military, Bombs, Pilots

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

  Jamie Gorelick

  Matter, Cyber, Harbors

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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

  Lord Byron

  White, Champagne

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Tangled, Bird

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Men, Needs

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Perfect, Forever, Answers

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Rose, Erotic

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• Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Seven Months, Schedules

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Japan

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• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Oysters, Discrimination

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

  Saadi

  Cutting, People, Knaves

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• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Sea

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• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Gold, Bags

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Balance, Gold

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Coal, Existence

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

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