Rough Quotes

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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know… — Andrew Jackson
Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease. — Selena Gomez
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. — Eknath Easwaran
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough… — Dilys Laing
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet… — Lord Chesterfield
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. — Rumi
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying… — Seneca the Younger
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and… — Chris Hadfield
Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out… — Victor Kiam
When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge. — J. Bracken Lee
Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to… — Rick Bayan
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined… — Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in… — John Brown
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist. — Alan Page
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert

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