#diamond

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#choice #competing #diamond #fastest #hard

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#diamonds #floor #god #had #i

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. ↗

— James Stewart

#belonged #called #central #central park #diamond

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

— Mother Jones

#me #needed #rough #someone #teachers

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #moments #age

Diamonds are beautiful and sparkling because they are flawless, Utau's strong determination and her readiness make her shine, Being the way you are now, Can you possibly shine? ↗

— Dia from Shugo Chara!

#beauty

i had to came to tell you how beautiful you look. Really, Jay, you look amazing. Hard to believe the raggedy little girl who punched me in the face could grow up to look like this. ↗

— Jillian Dodd

#jj-reinolds #that-wedding #beauty

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust. ↗

— Owl City

#dreams #dust #inspirational #dreams

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction