Kimberley Process Quotes

#1. When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.

Peter Singer

#2. The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#3. Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.

Eka Kurniawan

#4. It's wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.

Kevin Systrom

#5. It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

Dalai Lama

#6. I'm a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.

Sarah Noffke

#7. Peace can't be forced, only discovered from within

Hector Martinez

#8. What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Franz Kafka

#9. With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

Michelle Moran

#10. The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#11. Make love to me," she whispered. "If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one of him when he takes my blood, but we are two." "We are two and more than two," he whispered in her ear, and then he lifted her and carried her to the bed.

Louise Murphy

#12. She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.

Elizabeth Goudge

#13. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Andre Gide

#14. On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

Gabrielle Zevin

#15. Mrs. Chandler shouted after us, And I hope that was all-natural food coloring you put on my dog!

Lisa Lutz

#16. Coach your customers in the area of your expertise

Timi Nadela

#17. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.

Oscar Wilde