Rough Quotes

870 quotes by 734 authors

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. — Umar
As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I… — Cadel Evans
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is… — Pat Roberts
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the… — Anthony Burgess
We are rough men and used to rough ways. — Bob Younger
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. — Lord Chesterfield
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely… — Charles Lamb
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life. — Deborah Norville
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling… — Harriet Quimby
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not… — Ian Anderson
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned… — Charles Caleb Colton
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,… — Kurt Vonnegut

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