Rough Quotes

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

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 not war. Terrorism is.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

My life was pretty rough.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.

We are rough men and used to rough ways.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

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

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."

Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.

There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.