Rough Quotes

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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless… — Stevie Smith
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly… — Jack Kornfield
Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will… — Takeda Shingen
I'll go gentle on him, ... I promise not to rough him up too much. I just think him saying stuff like that is just… — Ricky Hatton
Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to… — Wilfrid Noyce
The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear… — Hal Porter
I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous.… — Richard G. Scott
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of… — John Climacus
I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough… — Jimmy Cliff
Shameless is a rough show, and itâ€™s not for everyone, but itâ€™s also beautiful. — William H. Macy
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort
The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can… — Sarah Jio
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA — Jacque Fresco
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be… — David Deida
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I… — Terence Stamp
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The… — Alexander Pope
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It… — Charles Francis Richter
Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that… — M. Russell Ballard
The first rough draft of history. — Ben Bradlee

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