#diamonds

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

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

… 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

There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don't cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don't bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#blue-roses #inspirational-quotes #value #worth #inspirational

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

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute! ↗

— Ron White

#her #minute #shut #up

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#diamonds #i #neck #rather #roses

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake. ↗

— Debra Messing

#fascinated #hands #i #put #shake

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗