Diamond Quotes - Page 2

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

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Jewels, Shining

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• Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey

  Dinah

  Glitter, Honey, Chasing

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• Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Poor, Wealthy

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• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Acres

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

  Leo Robin

  Friendship, Girl, Kissing

  "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (song) (1949) See Advertising Slogans 39; Loos 2

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, May, Pebbles

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• By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Law, Ideas, Feet

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.364, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

  Larry David

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• Big girls need big diamonds.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Girl, Fashion, Needs

  "Eight Lessons Millennial Women Can Learn from Elizabeth Taylor" by Victoria Pynchon, www.forbes.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Diamonds never leave you... men do!

  Shirley Bassey

  Men

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• Pressure makes diamonds

  George S. Patton

  Clever, Military, Pressure

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• The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

  Arthur Miller

  Dark, Salesman, Jungle

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.218, A&C Black

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• A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

  Anita Loos

  Kissing, Hands, Forever

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• 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

  Light, Jewels, Color

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• 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

  News, Priceless, Should

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  Eartha Kitt

  Gold, Dirt, Don't Trust

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• Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jewels, Coal, Definitions

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  Harold Geneen

  Standing Out, Performances

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• All is beautiful and unceasing,
  all is music and reason,
  and all, like diamond,
  is carbon first, then light.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Light, Firsts

  "José Martí : Selected Writings", by Jose Marti, translated by Esther Allen, (p. 275), 2002.

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• This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

  Richard Burton

  Jewels, Jewelry, Turnips

  "Sex Devotional: 365 Days of Passion, Positions, and Pure Pleasure" by Olivia St. Claire, Adams Media, (p. 309), November 18, 2009.

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• The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Standing Out, Should

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.371, Thomas Nelson Inc

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