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Quotes About Gem

And she crawled on, do or die, in the serene weather. The sky was a miracle of purity, a miracle of azure. The sea was polished, was blue was pellucid, was sparkling like a precious stone, extending on all sides , all round to the horizon—as if the whole terrestrial globe had been one jewel, one colossal sapphire, a single gem fashioned into a planet.
~ Joseph Conrad
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.
~ Raymond E. Feist
I am a jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox!
~ Kate Atkinson
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
~ William Wordsworth
Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
~ William Dunbar
I've always thought of her in the way I think of a precious gem: The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.
~ William Kent Krueger
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character
~ Albert Jay Nock
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
~ Adrian Lyne
There is special power in that sword, ' Ewer went on, 'the gem in the guard of the Ares holds the blood of the Creature that has been slain by it.
~ S.C. Parris, The Two Swords
Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.
~ Lionel Suggs
Overall, I view the design of the Catholic Mass as something like a polished gem, refined over time to a state of great beauty—if you know what you are looking at,
~ David P. Gushee
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
~ Ed Asner
The fire of passion burns out eventually. Then you dig through the ashes and discover a gem. You pick it up; you look at it with disbelief. The gem was inside you all the time. It is yours to keep forever. It is buddha.
~ Deepak Chopra
He's a gem, sir. I wish I had one just like him. He rattled the ring of keys on Artemis's belt. And what are these? Artemis scratched his head. Uh, keys?
~ Eoin Colfer
No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
~ Erasmus Darwin
Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
~ Nhat Hanh
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
~ Honore de Balzac
I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends.
~ Helen George
Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
~ Salman Rushdie
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
~ Ed Asner
Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? —
~ Frank Herbert
Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I have a natural flow in the diary: what I produce outside is a distillation, the myth, the poem. The elaboration is here. It is the gem made out of this natural outpouring. Shouldn't people prefer the gems?
~ Anais Nin