A Diamond Under Pressure Quotes

#1. Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.

Terry Pratchett

#2. ...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.

Tarryn Fisher

#3. Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure.

Eli Easton

#5. Drizzt swung a long and heavy halberd, a polearm more than twice his height, in a slow arc. For all of Drizzt's attempts to keep the weapon under control, its momentum spun his tiny frame right to the ground.

R.A. Salvatore

#6. I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.

Lee Child

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

Joel Osteen

#8. Uh-huh. You can't fool me. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure. Well, whatever fire forged you, you are special. You're a jewel." Michael

Eli Easton

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

Miriam Darnell

#10. My heart aches for you! But don't despair! I am persuaded you will come about! Recollect what the poet says! I'm not sure which poet, but very likely it was Shakespeare, because it generally is, though why I can't imagine!

Georgette Heyer

#11. Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

Robert Horry

#12. The Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors,

Mark Twain

#13. Under pressure, she became a diamond. Under pressure, she became unbreakable.

Anonymous

#14. The next generation should embrace their struggles. A butterfly develops only after a struggle to break free from its cocoon. A diamond can only emerge after taking in all the pressure that it can. Struggle hard and never ever give up! You are born to be a Hero.

Avijeet Das

#15. A star will shine in the midst of darkness.
A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.
A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt.
A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.
A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. I don't have much anymore, but I'll give you everything I got.

Kendall Grey

#17. A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

Lemony Snicket

#19. Challenges are your stepping stones. No one can explore their potential without meeting obstacles. Bear the pressure to emerge like a sparkling diamond.

Anastasia Verg

#20. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

#22. She wasn't the desert or the flowers. She wasn't ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.

Kit Rocha

#23. 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.

A.J. Dalton

#24. It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

Nicholson Baker

#25. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#26. Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

Nicky Gumbel

#27. A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure

Proverb

#28. Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Boone

#29. A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Henry A. Kissinger

#30. A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

Solange Nicole