Rough Quotes - Page 7

• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Fun, Hard Times, Dull

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.163, Open Road Media

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• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

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• I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Believe, Add, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Should Have

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

  Karen Armstrong

  Gentleman, Stones, Way

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Elderly

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Strong, Attitude, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  Maggie Siff

  New York, Grew Up, Bronx

  "Sons of Anarchy's Maggie Siff is Over the Don Draper Type" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Play, Different

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• If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Organization, Ideas

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.25, Rodale

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• We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Years, Shining

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• I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.

  Cristin Milioti

  Crazy, Nice, Kids

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• God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

  A. B. Simpson

  Kings, Dark, Jewels

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• You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Caring, Men, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent". Interview with Katie Couric, www.yahoo.com. July 30, 2014.

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• So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

  Britt Nicole

  Truth Is, Enough, Diamond In The Rough

  Song: Gold, Album: Gold, 2012

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Drawing

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• No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

  John Muir

  Life, Risk, Hardship

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

  Ray Dalio

  People, Giving, Want

  "Dalio's Quest to Outlive Himself" by Katherine Burton and Saijel Kishan, www.bloomberg.com. August 10, 2017.

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• I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Father, Somewhere Else, Trying

  "Little Women".

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Demand, Path, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.308, Stanford University Press

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• I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

  Tommy Shaw

  Guitar, Vintage, Play

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• 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 not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Father, Iron

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