Quotes About Diamonds In The Rough

#1. So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved
and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough,
Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up,
But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough ...

Britt Nicole

#2. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joseph Joubert

#3. We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".

~R. Alan Woods [1984]

R. Alan Woods

#4. I may not be perfect but I've always been true
I may not be worthy in your eyes

Avenged Sevenfold

#5. I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

Les Wexner

#6. Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

Dianna Hardy

#7. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#8. Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Juvenal

#9. With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.

S. Kelley Harrell

#10. Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

Sue Tompkins

#11. The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment.

Gina Greenlee

#12. A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization

Alec Douglas-Home

#14. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thomas Browne

#15. Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

Michael Morpurgo

#16. Poetry distracts me from going deeper over ... the edge. it is rough and shiny like black diamonds.it dazzles,it enhances,your everything. Each moment,every memory, you touch.

Emily H. Sturgill

#17. I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

Jim Webb

#18. Then, when Amelia was married, she found that the giving and receiving of forgiveness was a little like exercise. You didn't enjoy having to do it, but once you did, it got easier - and you learned to need it. Maybe that was what the Bible meant by being "exercised in the

Adina Senft

#19. If I was perfect then this would be easy...

Avenged Sevenfold

#20. Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.

Truth Devour

#21. In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#22. People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

Dan Scanlon

#23. Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

John Corey Whaley

#25. As hard as the diamonds in your smile,
the wind carries its hammers with no hands
and sustains a moan with no mouth,
seems to cradle solitude in its rough arms like firewood
to be burned in my house as it passes through
and asks, Where does she sparkle from?

B.J. Ward