Polished Diamond Quotes

#1. Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Marilyn French

#2. Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Judith Orloff

#3. "I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.

Karen Chance

#4. The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is;
the more tested a man the more refined he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

T.F. Hodge

#6. In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.

Michael Dirda

#7. We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity.

M.J. Rose

#8. It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

#10. Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#11. And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Tupac Shakur

#12. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote. A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities, and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Ayn Rand

#13. I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#14. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Daisaku Ikeda

#15. How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible

Kip S. Thorne

#16. I moaned and he growled in response.

Aileen Erin

#17. The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

Brad Alan Lewis

#18. Even a diamond can be polished.

Connie M. Moss

#19. The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

George Washington

#20. A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no
matter how polished.

Said Nursi

#21. We can only be young once. But we can always be immature.

Dave Barry

#22. A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

Solange Nicole