Quote by Ayn Rand

“When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.”

— Truth Devour

“Any way you cut it, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Or, more accurately, between a fang and a sharp…

— Jeaniene Frost

“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks…

— Roberto Bolaño

“He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made…

— Ayn Rand

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much…

— Jacob A. Riis

“A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.”

— Herman Melville

“... in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the…

— Michael Ondaatje

“A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.”

— Jodi Picoult

“No stone is ever broken completely. The parts that fall off are themselves their own stones bearing their own stories.”

— Alfrredo Navarro Salanga