Diamond In The Ruff Quotes & Sayings

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions. — R. J. Reynolds

Keep your head up, your chin high, and your eyes open for the little miracles occuring around you ... because trust me they are there, they are just waiting to be uncovered like a diamond on the ruff — Terrin White

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work. — Geoff Stults

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat. — Dan John

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it. — Brie Larson

He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth. — Kristine Grayson

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son. — John Calvin

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing. — Karen Thompson Walker

Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come. — Randy Alcorn

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness. — Ezra Taft Benson

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved. — Yoko Ono

Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not pass on a book that I especially loved to another. I am embarrassed to admit this, knowing that it reveals some essential lack or selfishness in my nature, and aware that it runs contrary to the instincts of most, whose passion for something leads them to want to share it, to ignite a similar passion in others, and that without the benefit of such enthusiasm I would still be ignorant of many of the books and much of the music I love most ... But rather than an expansion, I've always felt a diminishment of my own pleasure when I've invited someone else to take part in it, a rupture in the intimacy I felt with the work, an invasion of privacy. It is worst when someone else picks up the copy of a book I've just been enthralled by and begins casually to thumb through the pages. — Nicole Krauss

Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. — Omar Suleiman