A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her. – Eowyn Ivey
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Confucius
- Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The most beautiful jewelry in the world is not a diamond necklace, but two hearts beating as one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A diamond is pressure’s masterpiece. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You’re paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. – KyungSook Shin
- We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it’s tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche. – KA Laity
- Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do. – Max Lucado
- God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time. – Rebecca Barlow Jordan
- It’s been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love. – Heather Blanton
- There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. – KM Douglas
- Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. – Jared Diamond
- She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass. – Mina Loy
- The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. – Daniel Defoe
- The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond. – Pearl Zhu
- Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. – Jared Diamond
- Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always. – Debasish Mridha
- Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. – Ron Rash
- Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair. – Dorothy Parker
- When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- A true diamond never over shadows… it’s the brilliance of the subtle shine that’s the most attractive. – Dena Tyson
- Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby. – Jared Diamond
- I AM A GIRL WHO DARE,A CITIZEN WHO IS AWARE,DAUGHTER WHO PRAYER,SISTER WHO CARE,A FRIEND WHO SHARE,MIXTURE LIKE AIR,A DIAMOND SO RARE. – merlinthomas
- The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows – Barbara Kingsolver
- If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ???, and come collect a big, fat diamond in a few days. – M Leighton
- We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay’s thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. ‘I don’t get enough of this,’ she said. – Mike Bond
- Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood. – Aabid Surti
- friendship is not gold, but it’s more value;friendship is not diamond, but it’s more glory;friendship is not iron, but it’s more strong – suresh kannan kottarathil sk
- The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter. – Eyden I
- You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond once you lost it. – RSCruz
- our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes! – Michelle Moran
- Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure – Lemony Snicket