Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure
Blood Diamond Quotes
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. — John Webster
What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' — Chris Evans
If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month? — Chelsea Handler
You're a diamond dear, they can't break you.
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. — Thomas Browne
I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond. — Aristotle
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. — Gregory Maguire
Neil Diamond Quotes
Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong. — Mark Hoppus
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
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them. — Nick Lowe
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. — Michael Buble
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. — Cat Power
Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or something. I should've made that part of my gift form the gods: better elevator tunes. — Rick Riordan
You Are A Diamond Quotes
You're beautiful like a flower
More valuable than a diamond
You are powerful like a fire...
There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you, who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient — India.Arie
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. — Richard Bach
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. — Richard Bach
Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. — Chad Michael Murray
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. — Mae West
I'm starting to think that the men are the ones who should wear the big jewelry because they can defend it better when it's robbed. They should wear the big diamonds. You can show how much of a man you are, because the bigger the diamond, the stronger you have to be to defend it. — Andy Warhol
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Be Like A Diamond Quotes
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. — Hunter S. Thompson
Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant. — Sayings
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. — Harold Geneen
A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty. — Charles R. Swindoll
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 S. Geneen
Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat. — Anneli Rufus
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. — Harold S. Geneen
You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?" — Iman Shumpert
Diamond In The Rough Quotes
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. — Larry David
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. — Lord Chesterfield
So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough. — Britt Nicole
With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. — Lin-Manuel Miranda
I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.' — Jada Pinkett Smith
Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me. — J.R. Ward
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. — Babyface
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. — Mother Jones
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. — Kenneth Edmonds
Diamond Rings Quotes
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. — Judith Martin
I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content. — T. D. Jakes
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets. — ASAP Rocky
If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks. — Junior Brown
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun. — Eric Clapton
Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. — Chuck Tanner
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. — Loretta Lynn
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe. — Bob Dylan
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. — Kanye West
Black Diamonds Quotes
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
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
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial. — Karl Lagerfeld
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet. — Chris Alexander
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me. — Ines de La Fressange
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
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
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy. — Justin Bieber
Gold And Diamonds Quotes
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
It’s supply and demand. If gold is discovered, then it gets harder to make money mining gold because everyone’s competing with you. — Jim Simons
Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson
Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us. — Alex Tan
Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold. — Drew Chadwick
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert
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
I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman. — Monica Bellucci
Diamonds And Pearls Quotes
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. — Rick Warren
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. — Rabindranath Tagore
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
[Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.] — Jean De La Bruyere
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 Shirazi
Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. — Muhammad Ali
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death. — Ian Caldwell
It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. — Vincent Van Gogh
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. — Vincent de Paul
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville
I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. — Horace Mann
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? — Maya Angelou
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. — Jesse Owens
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. — Edward Zwick
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. — Jim Bishop
As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love. — Naguib Mahfouz
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. — Vladimir Nabokov
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands. — Ronald Dworkin
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. — William Wilberforce
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. — Leo Robin
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature. — Wim Hof
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
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention. — Rick Warren
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