Rough Quotes - Page 27

• Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Nice, Views

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• Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Cat, Rivers

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• She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

  John Cheever

  Night, Empty Life, Coffins

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.97, Random House

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• BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

  Kay Ryan

  Distance, Waiting, Bait

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Hair, Racing

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Good Intentions, Moments

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.298, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Hannibal Buress

  Graduation, Time, People

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

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Men, Religion

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  H. G. Wells

  Children, Mean, Opportunity

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Golf, Caddies

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• There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

  Stan Mikita

  Dirty, Hockey, Player

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• The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Hope, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Civilization, Camping

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.290

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Sadness, World

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

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• Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

  Andrew Jackson

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "The Life of Andrew Jackson". Vol. II, ch. XXVI. Book by James Parton, 1860.

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• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Relationship, Rough Edges, Perfect

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.19, Nilgiri Press

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• I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'

  Dilys Laing

  Book, Cat, Animal

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Challenges, Feelings

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Norman Corwin

  Sunset, Age, Tough

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• Caricature is rough truth.

  George Meredith

  Art, Artist, Caricatures

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound is set, and their limit known; but mind the Seed, which hath dominion over all. And forsake not the assembling of yourselves together in which you have found God and his promise and power and blessing amongst you, your understanding opened.

  Francis Howgill

  Blessing, Understanding, Promise

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• The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Moon, Numbers

  Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”

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• I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

  Bob Newhart

  Laughter, Successful, Thinking

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". The Smith Center interview, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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