Rough Quotes

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. (Seneca)
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. View quote
Juvenal
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. View quote
George Orwell
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? View quote
Dan Quayle
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. View quote
Dan Quayle
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. View quote
Pythagoras
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. View quote
Pythagoras
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. (Beatrix Potter)
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. View quote
Robert Crumb
Is love a tender thing It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn. View quote
William Shakespeare
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. View quote
Babyface
You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. View quote
Babyface
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. View quote
Daphne Zuniga
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. View quote
Hannibal Buress
My acting career helped pull me through the rough times. (Shirley Knight)
I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. View quote
Sue Wicks
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. View quote
William James
Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great! View quote
Frank Zappa
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. View quote
George Eliot