#diamond

Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong. ↗

— Sky Diamond

#help #inspirational #personal-growth #sky-diamond #young-authors

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gold #like #only #owes #praise

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. ↗

— Jill St. John

#forever #youth

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#fine #fool #hand #man #pebble

Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique. ↗

— Jaclyn Smith

#diamonds #each #find #like #made

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#avarice #consent #could #diamond #earth

That was out of line.” “No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she found irresistible. “You’re my wife, and you do have an amazing mouth. ↗

— Delaney Diamond

#delaney-diamond #interracial-romance #the-arrangement #men

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live! ↗

— A.A. Bell

#diamond-eyes #fantasy #humour #inspirational #science-fiction

Vaporized by the sun! Wasn't that what the universe had in store for all of us? There would come a day when the sun exploded like a red balloon, and everyone on earth would be reduced in less than a camera flash to carbon. Didn't Genesis say as much? For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. This was far more than dull old theology: It was precise scientific observation! Carbon was the Great Leveler--the Grim Reaper. Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That was the way we all were headed. I was sure of it. We were destined to be diamonds! ↗

— Alan Bradley

#death #diamonds #art

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. ↗

— Aberjhani

#charlie-parker #creativity #diamonds #genius #jazz-music