#diamonds

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#jewellery #life #time-keeping #watches #life

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #next #pearls #rarest #sound

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#diamonds #floor #god #had #i

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #moments #age

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down– they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#friendship #inspirational-quotes #true-friends #friendship

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction