Rugged Quotes
89 Rugged quotes by 82 unique authors
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only…
— James A. Garfield
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President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by…
— Ron Fournier
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I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach…
— Evelyn Glennie
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A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the…
— Maureen McCormick
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set…
— Ezra Pound
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one…
— Barack Obama
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I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for…
— Stephen Chbosky
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You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once…
— Jennifer Estep
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One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the…
— Wallace Stegner
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Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
— Stephen Chbosky
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He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop…
— Nhat Hanh
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To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always taller than everyone…
— Richelle Mead
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A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really…
— Daniel Clowes
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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and…
— George Burns
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Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so…
— Roger Bannister
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in…
— Eva Green
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I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.
— Susan Ford
Who Wrote These Rugged Quotes
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