Jewels Quotes - Page 19

• Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Profound, Church

  "Sacerdotalis Caelibatus". Encyclical of Pope Paul VI, w2.vatican.va. June 24, 1967.

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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• From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, Moon, Sky

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• The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

  Alton Brown

  Melting, Kidneys, Fats

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Dear

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.

  Big Boi

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  "Big Boi Welcomes Us to the World of Luscious Left Foot". Interview with Dave Maher, pitchfork.com. August 4, 2008.

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• There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

  Edward Coke

  Law, World, Excellent

  Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?

  LIZ

  Weapons, Emotion, Realizing

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• I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

  Alison Elliott

  Stars, Playing Dress Up, Dresses

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• At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.

  Margo Kaufman

  Real, Light, Play

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.

  Ricardo Guadalupe

  Men, People, Watches

  "Q&A with Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe". Interview with Christopher Hunt, www.askmen.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

  Constance Markievicz

  Women, Gold, Dresses

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• I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Heart, Leaving, Different

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• A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Treasure, Dignity, Life Is

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• ...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Wisdom, Real, Blessed

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.21, Harmony

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Data, Ideas

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• The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

  Norman Mailer

  Moon, Night, Vegas

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
  Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
  I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
  Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

  Dorothea Mackellar

  Country, Nature, Rain

  1905 'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as 'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

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• The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.

  Joseph Joachim

  Heart, Seductive, Max

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• The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, United States, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Patches are a nun's jewels.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Poverty, Patches, Nun

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Water, Abuse

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

  George Santayana

  Light, May, Truth Is

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.65, MIT Press

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• The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

  Rafe Esquith

  Motivation, Teaching, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Flower, Orange, Gold

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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