Diamond Quotes - Page 6

• In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, World, Normal

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me'". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. October 06, 2013.

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• The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Differences, Black

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• In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

  Robert Ringer

  Jewels, Order, People

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

  Mae West

  Men, Careers

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

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• So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

  Britt Nicole

  Truth Is, Enough, Diamond In The Rough

  Song: Gold, Album: Gold, 2012

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, Compassion

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• Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

  Camille Grammer

  Girl

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• Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Fire

  Peter Kreeft (1994). “C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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• Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.

  Ally Carter

  Uncles, Father, Beer

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.

  Jimmy Webb

  Writing, Simple, Should Have

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• Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Sentiments, Values

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Views, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Character, Blow, Jewels

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• You're beautiful like a flower
  More valuable than a diamond
  You are powerful like a fire...
  There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
  When you believe in you, who are beautiful
  Yeah you, who are brilliant
  Yeah you, who are powerful
  Yeah you, who are resilient

  India.Arie

  Beautiful, Powerful, Believe

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• So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

  Karl Marx

  Pearls, Chemist, Values

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  Bo Lozoff

  Eye, Shining, Dawn

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin

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• Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

  Eric Thomas

  Cutting, Shine Bright, Shining

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• Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Perfect, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

  Philippe Djian

  Two, People, Silence

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• ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

  Roger Waters

  Death, Ashes, Ends

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• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

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• Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

  Fanny Kemble

  Female, Modesty, Settings

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• A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Jobs, Coal, Stuck

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• Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe

  Kanye West

  Sky, Feels, Ifs

  Song: **Bonus TRACK**Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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