Diamonds And Rubies Quotes

#1. Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Robert Anton Wilson

#2. It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. Those words ... national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.

A.S. Byatt

#5. I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

Waris Ahluwalia

#6. Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed, this time with gratitude.
All this, for her.

Victoria Kahler

#7. the line between hunter and hunted can be as small as a single moment of unreadiness.

J.A. McLachlan

#8. I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

Waris Ahluwalia

#9. Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

Alex Cox

#10. 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

#11. We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Margaret Atwood

#12. Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

Josef Albers

#13. A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.

Lynda Resnick

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

Debasish Mridha

#15. There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.

Mike Dooley

#16. He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

Jack London

#17. My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

Mark Twain