Diamond Quotes - Page 20

• At summits Margaret Tatcher was the only woman. Always perfectly coiffed, splendidly dressed - beautiful maroon or dark blue suits. That lovely diamond brooch. She would never speak to an issue without having absolutely exhausted the research on the file. She spoke very confidently because of it.

  Brian Mulroney

  Beautiful, Dark, Lovely

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• "Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.

  Sophie Tucker

  Sports, Running, Cutting

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• Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Reality, Ugly

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• Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, Diamond Jubilee

  "'The haves and have yachts': Clegg blasts Gove's call for a new royal ship for the Queen as a Jubilee present". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Girl, Blood, Months

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• Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill.

  Jay Mohr

  Men, Car, Causes

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• 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

  Talking, Watches, Mouths

  Song: Pretty Gordo

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• 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

  Men, Perfection, Long

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

  Erin Wasson

  Mother, Teenager, School

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• The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Flower, Feet, Naked

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1873). “Aunt Jane's hero”, p.247

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• Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who have no failures also have few victories.

  John Landis Mason

  People, Perfect, Victory

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• I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.

  Layman Pang

  Believe, Dust, Names

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• Last night, I went to a birthday party, and this girl brought a cake and a cheesecake. And the other girls that lived in the apartment, I swear to God, all night long: 'You're taking that cake with you when you go. That cake's not staying in this house.' Like it's this evil, Hope Diamond, nuclear, horrifying cursed thing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Girl, Party, Night

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

  Stanley Elkin

  Management, Fine, Cutters

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• In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Stars, Ideas, Dirt

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Courage, Cutting, Fire

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.356

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• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Fire, Jewels

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• A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

  Confucius

  Evil, May, Careful

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• The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Play, Scripture

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• You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Real, Ideas

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• Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.

  John Gorka

  Sea, Rocks, Blue

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• As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.

  Andrew Ference

  Hockey, Nhl, Rich Life

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• Why are there not positive mysteries? It's always who stole the diamond, or who killed the butler? How about... who made cookies, somebody cleaned my room.

  Demetri Martin

  Cookies, Rooms, Mystery

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• Mitt Romney had a fundraiser in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them.

  Bob Beckel

  Israel, Names, Bunch

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