Rough Quotes

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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. — Cab Calloway
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may… — Russell M. Nelson
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. — Tommy Shaw
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long -… — Laurence Sterne
The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and… — Keenen Ivory Wayans
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Caricature is rough truth. — George Meredith
Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure… — Chris Kilham
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar… — Terry McAuliffe
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines… — Paul Rudnick
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. — Vincent de Paul
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our… — Vincent de Paul
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound… — Francis Howgill
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the… — Robert Falcon Scott
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but… — Seneca the Younger
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where… — Plato
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put… — Hesiod

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