Top 33 Diamonds Pearls Quotes
#1. 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
#2. From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. 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
#4. They say ol' man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He's the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.
Colum McCann
#5. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
Thomas Harris
#6. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Aberjhani
#7. 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
#8. She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued playing without pause.
Patricia Briggs
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.
Shane Claiborne
#12. 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
#13. The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
Nora Roberts
#14. Let us return to Jesus' prayer that, through the unity of the disciples, the world may recognize him as the one sent by the Father. This recognizing and believing is not something merely intellectual; it is about being touched by God's love and therefore changed; it is about the gift of true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. 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
#16. It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.
Jamaica Kincaid
#17. At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson
#18. Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean De La Bruyere
#19. Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
Muhammad Ali
#20. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
Rick Warren
#21. Let us decorate the world with the pearls of a smile, diamonds of hope, and the rubies of love.
Debasish Mridha
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. Many of the most famous people in our culture have achieved their dreams but have still not found a way to enjoy them. They often turn to drugs because they feel unfulfilled. This is because they are missing the distinction between achieving one's goals and living one's values,
Anthony Robbins
#26. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#27. Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.
Marvin Williams
#28. And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls
Jill Sobule
#29. To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.
Epictetus
#30. I always said he was off his rocker,' said Ron, looking quite impressed at how mad his hero was.
J.K. Rowling
#31. 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
#32. Paranoid eyes with the fusion of passion and duplicity.
J.G. Ballard
#33. 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
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