#diamond

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#executives #hear #like #lot #producers

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#extremely #hard #know #self #steel

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#away #diamonds #explained #like #out

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#contrary #diamonds #difficulties #grow #life

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#birth #birth control #control #country #diamonds

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

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#came #complex #diamond #england #everybody

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