Rough Quotes

870 Rough quotes by 695 unique authors

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 it’s not for everyone, but it’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
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

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