Quotes About Diamond And Pressure

#1. I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! ... I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Alexander Graham Bell

#2. Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure.

Eli Easton

#4. I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.

Lee Child

#5. The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

Joel Osteen

#6. People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

Po Bronson

#7. Uh-huh. You can't fool me. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure. Well, whatever fire forged you, you are special. You're a jewel." Michael

Eli Easton

#8. Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Miriam Darnell

#9. Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

Robert Horry

#10. Under pressure, she became a diamond. Under pressure, she became unbreakable.

Anonymous

#11. The next generation should embrace their struggles. A butterfly develops only after a struggle to break free from its cocoon. A diamond can only emerge after taking in all the pressure that it can. Struggle hard and never ever give up! You are born to be a Hero.

Avijeet Das

#12. People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Colin Angle

#13. A star will shine in the midst of darkness.
A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.
A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt.
A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.
A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#15. His kiss has become my anchor to this earth, the very reason for my existence.

Mia Sheridan

#16. A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

Jared Diamond

#18. Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

Lemony Snicket

#19. Challenges are your stepping stones. No one can explore their potential without meeting obstacles. Bear the pressure to emerge like a sparkling diamond.

Anastasia Verg

#20. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. She wasn't the desert or the flowers. She wasn't ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.

Kit Rocha

#22. My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Leonard Cohen

#23. Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

A.J. Dalton

#24. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#25. Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Harry S. Truman

#26. Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

Nicky Gumbel

#27. I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Soule

#28. A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure

Proverb

#29. A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Henry A. Kissinger

#30. 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