Diamonds And Pearls Quotes

#1. A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Irving Stone

#2. more diamonds and pearls of electricity

Allen Ginsberg

#3. Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

Muhammad Ali

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

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Aberjhani

#6. Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Minute diamonds of moisture from the mist hung, too, upon Tess's eyelashes, and drops upon her hair, like seed pearls. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty;

Thomas Hardy

#8. If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Henri Nouwen

#9. People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

Ines De La Fressange

#10. Such hath it been
shall be
beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

Lord Byron

#11. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#12. That's the world that matters. The world where people glitter like diamonds with a million facets. Where people are like pearls, luminous as nacre on the surface but each with a speck that would destroy it if you were looking only for specks.

James A. Michener

#13. From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Martha Gellhorn

#14. Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch
the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

John Wilmot

#15. From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Saadi

#17. When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

Larry Wall

#18. It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains

Danielle Dutton

#19. When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.

Helen Steiner Rice

#20. The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Ignazio Silone

#21. The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.

Rae Spoon

#22. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Rick Warren

#23. Let us decorate the world with the pearls of a smile, diamonds of hope, and the rubies of love.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

Ian Caldwell

#25. That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

William Peter Blatty

#26. These pearls are orient, but they yield in whiteness to your teeth; the diamonds are brilliant, but they cannot match your eyes; and ever since I have taken up this wild trade, I have made a vow to prefer beauty to wealth.

Walter Scott

#27. If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.

J.D. Robb

#28. When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

Benedict Cumberbatch

#29. The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.

Louis D. Brandeis

#30. Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

Freya Stark

#31. And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Jill Sobule

#32. Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

James Altucher

#33. In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

J.P. Moreland