#diamonds

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gold #like #only #owes #praise

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. ↗

— Jill St. John

#forever #youth

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#comes #diamonds #efforts #experience #favorite

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#diamonds #happy #horses #i #i am

If I was perfect then this would be easy... ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#diamonds #flick #funny #sort #steal

Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come out from there and are put on display for their beauty; does anybody stop to evaluate the diamond based upon all the shit it's been through and say "Remember that disgusting hole it used to be in? I bet it was hell in there!" No, people don't remember where a diamond has come from; they just see the beauty of it now. But it wouldn't have become so beautiful, you know, if not for all of that! So why should we look at other people, or at ourselves and evaluate them/ourselves based upon their/our pasts? Shouldn't we forget that? And only see the beauty that is in front of our eyes? Whatever it was, it made you beautiful! And that is what matters! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgetting-the-past #our-pasts #seeing-the-beauty-now #the-beauty-in-front-of-you #the-past

… 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

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

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#fashion #friends #friendship #jewelry #style