Coal Diamond Quotes

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

Lemony Snicket

#2. A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Stephen Covey

#4. Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Robert Bolt

#5. I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Roger Daltrey

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

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. What makes any life beautful is the simple fact of living it.

Marty Rubin

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

Proverb

#9. Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Ron Rash

#10. For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime ... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

Ingrid Weir

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

Nicky Gumbel

#13. Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. 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

#15. Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Chanakya

#16. The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

C.S. Lewis

#17. A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

William Arthur Ward

#18. If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ass, and come collect a big, fat diamond in a few days.

M. Leighton

#19. Old lady Patterson is a real tightwad." Raising his voice
so it would carry, the man continued, "If she stuck a lump of coal
up her ass, within a week she'd shit out a diamond.

Drew Hunt

#20. Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Terry Pratchett

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

Miriam Darnell

#22. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.

Lauren Oliver

#23. The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Jodi Picoult

#24. The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.

Donald Miller

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

Joel Osteen

#26. I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Billy Joe Shaver

#27. This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin';
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

Mos Def

#28. A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

Thomas A. Edison

#29. In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.

Jared Diamond