Diamond Quotes - Page 22

• Come up and be a kite,
  On a diamond flight!

  Kate Bush

  Kites, Flight, Come Up

  Song: Kite, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• Diamonds cut diamonds.

  John Ford

  Cutting

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.71, Manchester University Press

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• The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it.

  Kenneth G. Mills

  True Identity, Fire, Needs

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• The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

  Orison S. Marden

  Cutting, Men, Doe

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• Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Character, Littles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Cutting, Dust, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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

  Kabir

  Heart, Vegetables, Ties

  "Bijak". Book by Kabir; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya,

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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 Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dog, Nice

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• Her idea of a romantic setting is one that has a diamond in it. If you feel the need to marry a doctor, I suggest a dermatologist. Good hours, free Retin-A.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

  Nia Long

  Thinking, Precious Stones, Looks

  "Nia Long's Simple Two-Step Trick for Instantly Brighter Skin". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Coal, Students

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• A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

  Pam Brown

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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• I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.naylor.net

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• My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

  Mother Jones

  Teacher, Teaching, Diamond In The Rough

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• Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.

  Tom Baker

  Beautiful, Song, Real

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• Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Baseball, Fighting, People

  "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy Jr., p.9, 1964.

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• There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

  Brett Ratner

  Stars, Rap, Differences

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Father, Home, Mean

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