Quotes About Diamond

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

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

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it!

In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud. This display of opulence was misleading, for though he did a fairly good business it was known that his easygoing habits and the demands of his large family frequently kept him what Starkfield called behind.

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

One of the wilder proselytizers, a Scandinavian geologist Henrick Steffens, was said to have stated that 'The diamond is a piece of carbon that has come to its sense.' To which a Scottish geologist, probably John Playfair gave the legendary reply, 'Then a quartz, therefore, must be a diamond run mad.

The blackest despair at the heart of them gets pressed to diamond.

Claymore? The original tin man? Pryce would get a good laugh out of that. Okay, then, because Pryce deserved to be best man and Punch didn't. Too egotistical on Pryce's part. Because if she called off the wedding, Jillian would keep her three-carat diamond ring.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough, she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love.

I started thinking of my absentee diamond. My thumb and little finger kept reaching for their pet and sidekick.