Rough Quotes

870 Rough quotes by 695 unique authors

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. — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. — Unknown Author
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. — Unknown Author
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

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