Gemstone Quotes

#1. Ranel had said that the murderer wore a ring with a red gemstone. Looking at Akkarin's hands, she was almost disappointed to see they were bare. Not even a mark to hint that a ring might have been worn regularly. His fingers were long and elegant, yet masculine ...

Trudi Canavan

#2. Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside."
"Oh."
"A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

Brian Selznick

#3. Lexie's baby. Four weeks ... not quite a quarter of an inch: a tiny gemstone, a single spark of color slipping between your fingers and through the cracks and gone. A heart the size of a fleck of glitter and vibrating like a hummingbird, seeded with a billion things that would never happen now.

Tana French

#4. If anyone names me after a gemstone, I'm going to find out how well my new teeth work on them. I saw that movie too. I think I'll stick with Dragon. At least it sounds badass and it's self-explanatory." - Jill Hammond

Thomas Cardin

#5. You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Denis Waitley

#6. While we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

Roger Scruton

#7. Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not ... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

#9. When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

Rachel Kushner

#10. Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Tom Rath

#12. The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#13. But most people are content with a life among shadows. They give no thought to what is casting the shadows. They think shadows are all there are, never realizing even that they are, in fact, shadows. And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.

Jostein Gaarder

#14. I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

George Orwell

#15. When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Raoul Dufy

#16. Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

China Anne McClain

#17. I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, 'I'm finally here now. This is it.

Autre Ne Veut

#18. In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.

Philip Larkin