Precious Stone Quotes

#1. Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you.

Meg Haston

#2. I held hope in my hands every day. I treated hope like it was a precious stone. I clutched it so tightly that I sometimes felt bruised by it.

Pamela Sparkman

#3. Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

Nia Long

#4. No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

Al-Ghazali

#5. But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

James K. Baxter

#6. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#7. Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#8. Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Delphine De Girardin

#11. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Max Muller

#12. When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

Olivia Wilde

#13. I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls ... She's too precious to give up.

Megan Whalen Turner

#14. What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

William Gilmore Simms

#15. strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious

Juliet Marillier

#16. It's exactly because of what you are," he'd said. Dean hadn't mean prostitute, although he'd deliberately allowed Rob to think so. What you are is beautiful. Warm. Unbearably precious. One night with you, and I'd do anything to keep you. Tear Carwick apart, stone by stone, with my bare hands.

M.J. Pearson

#17. That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

Linda Howard

#18. Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Orson Scott Card

#19. The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

Rick Moody

#20. Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.

Biz Stone

#21. Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.

W. Clement Stone

#22. Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#23. Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

Jeff Ball

#24. In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Victoria Finlay

#25. The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

Robert Ludlum

#26. He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness.

Susanna Clarke

#27. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

Robert Jordan

#28. Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

Groucho Marx

#29. A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.

Matshona Dhliwayo