Diamond Quotes · Page 19

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

— Stanley Elkin

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond…

— William J. H. Boetcker

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt…

— Steve Lawson

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

— Juvenal

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

— Sara Sheridan

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

— Kate Winslet

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a…

— Hedda Hopper

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still…

— Pearl S. Buck

Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things…

— Ricky Skaggs

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere…

— Emmanuel Jal

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my…

— Mary Oliver

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than…

— Vincent de Paul

We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged.…

— Vladimir Putin

Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . .…

— Janet Lembke

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

— Theodore Parker

“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is…

— Nicky Oppenheimer

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

— Patanjali

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

— Waka Flocka Flame

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends…

— Gina Barreca

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

— Djimon Hounsou

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with…

— Louise Linton

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds…

— Tori Amos

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The founders of Draken and the senior management team all fly one of the positions in the Black Diamond jet team.

— Jared Isaacman

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a…

— Jim Jarmusch

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

— Rodman Philbrick

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

— Muhammad Ali

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

— Lionel Hampton

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to…

— Kool Keith

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own…

— Kabir

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

— Lana Del Rey

I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

— Jill Scott

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

— Philippe Djian

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

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your…

— Dave Matthews