Rough Quotes - Page 24

• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Suze Orman

  Real, Kids, College

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Stronger, Rough Patches

  "Ryan Reynolds & Jason Bateman Interview". "AskMen" Interview, au.askmen.com.

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

  Joshua Slocum

  Men, Light, Sea

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Passion, What Matters, Swim

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• There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.

  Hank Stuever

  Sunday, Night, Years

  " TV ‘Breaking Bad’ finale: What happened to Walt — and to us" by Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
  We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

  David D. Clark

  Running, Kings, Believe

  "How Anarchy Works" by Paulina Borsook, www.wired.com. October 1, 1995.

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
  And it stings you for your pains;
  Grasp it like a man of mettle,
  And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures:
  Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
  But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
  And the rogues obey you well.

  Aaron Hill

  Pain, Men, Ems

  'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'

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• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  Raekwon

  Mom, Father, Parent

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• You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

  Michael Madsen

  Children, Kids, Play

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• My life was pretty rough.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Gratitude, Path

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Dust, Shining

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• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Sweet, Talking

  "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.

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• Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

  Cameron Crowe

  Being Positive, World, Cynicism

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2000.

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Discipline, Energy, Tactics

  "The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism" by Arthur Versluis, Oxford University Press, (p. 39), 2006.

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• Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Running, Morning

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Scotland, Rough Edges, Doctrine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.56, Barbour Publishing

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• Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Flames, Broken

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• My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Sarcastic, Sunday

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• Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

  Ryan White

  Mom, Jobs, Financial Hardship

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