#diamonds

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ↗

— Juvenal

#diamonds #exterior #individuals #like #many

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#jewellery #life #time-keeping #watches #life

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #next #pearls #rarest #sound

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

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ↗

— Leo Robin

#best friend #continental #diamonds #friend #girl

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds." ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#diamonds #middle #moment #own #right

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#diamonds #enough #give #hated #his

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

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