I went to an auction in the late '70s and bought a small Renoir. People said, "Why did you buy a Renoir that size?" I said, "I can put it in the safe with my diamonds. " And that was a true story. I bought it to put it in the safe.
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.
Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond. They have together since the beginning of time- Side by side, step by step.
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.
Platinum is a lot of things: it's hair, it's diamonds and platinum
Diamonds - that'll shut her up. . . for a minute!
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
