Rough Quotes - Page 20

• One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

  Terry McAuliffe

  Beer, Oil, Guy

  "Terry McAuliffe’s Green America: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Natalia Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Character, Writing, Night

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

  Vincent de Paul

  Kind, Guidance, Meekness

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• We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Heart, Humility, Grace

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

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Want, Rough Times

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• 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, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Heart, Rich Countries

  "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Rocks, History, Littles

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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• It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Giving, Levels

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• Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

  Hesiod

  Sports, Lying, Sweat

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.

  Hannibal

  Use, Sock

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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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• I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

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• A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

  Jean Michel Jarre

  Odd, Stereotype, Chic

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• It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

  S. E. Hinton

  Break, Fairs

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.

  Walter Weyl

  Mother, Children, Confused

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• You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

  Victoria Azarenka

  Rough Patches, Achieve, Great Things

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Voice, Wish, Sound

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

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sea, Mind, Wake Up

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• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Cutting, Waste

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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