Black Diamonds Quotes

• I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

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  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cutting   Black   Diamond  

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• My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all

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  Claudia Black

  Running   Ideas   My Boyfriend  

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• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

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  Sara Sheridan

  Sky   Black   Crystals  

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power   Civilization   Black  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

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  Justin Bieber

  Black   Diamond   Black Diamonds  

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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  Confucius

  Life   Success   Mistake  

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

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  Joseph Conrad

  Book   Believe   People  

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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