Diamond Quotes

716 Diamond quotes by 537 unique authors

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea... — Anne Sexton
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… — Lord Chesterfield
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no… — Unknown Author
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. — B. C. Forbes
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory. — John Flavel
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. — Unknown Author
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. — Mary Wortley Montagu
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty... — John Townsend Trowbridge
Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things… — Grete Waitz
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… — Joseph Joubert
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even,… — Thomas Guthrie
There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of… — Andrew Harvey
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A… — Humphrey Bogart
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute… — C.S. Lewis
The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting… — Unknown Author
There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. — Brian Tracy
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
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine… — Nelson Mandela
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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