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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. -- William Shakespeare
Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils. -- Martin Luther
Rough Johnson, the great moralist. -- Lord Byron
Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you. -- Pete Townshend
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. -- William Shakespeare
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. -- Thomas Browne
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her. -- Pete Townshend
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders -- Tom Berenger
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders. -- Tom Berenger
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. -- Larry David
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! -- David Copperfield
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight. -- Douglas Brinkley
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. -- Harvey Mackay
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal -- Tom Berenger
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. -- Tom Berenger
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. -- George Canning
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. -- Tom Berenger
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off." -- Tom Berenger
Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9) -- Mary E. Pearson
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . -- William Shakespeare
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. -- Stevie Smith
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love; -- William Shakespeare
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. -- Umar
If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride. -- John Scalzi
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? -- Vikram Seth
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. -- Ouida
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. -- Oscar Wilde
When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'. -- John Wayne
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. -- Dan Quayle
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. -- Daniel Defoe
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality. -- Simon Schama
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours. -- William Osler
God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory. -- Joyce Meyer
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. -- Louisa May Alcott
Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. -- Tina Fey
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. -- Robert Southwell
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day. -- Justin Bieber
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! -- Shel Silverstein
I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense. -- Daddy Yankee
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. -- Thomas Guthrie
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. -- Bob Newhart
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. -- Samuel Butler
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. -- Daphne Zuniga
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. -- Jose Marti
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. -- Terry Eagleton
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! -- Steve Harvey
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find. -- Mattie Stepanek
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor. -- Patti Smith
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? -- Dan Quayle
When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl. -- Erin Wasson
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. -- Jerry Lewis
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character. -- Bobby Bowden
Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it's a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don't always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it's all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride. -- Austin Stowell
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life. -- Rob Manuel
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around. -- Q-Tip
Caricature is rough truth. -- George Meredith
Things are rough all over. -- S. E. Hinton
I'd had a rough childhood. -- Joni Mitchell
My life was pretty rough. -- Yoko Ono
No path is wholly rough. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I've always been a rough kid. -- Ray Knight
adversity is so rough a teacher! -- Fanny Fern
The first rough draft of history. -- Ben Bradlee
If it ain't rough, it ain't right -- Chauncey Billups
cutting edges are always a little rough ... -- Rosalie Maggio
The competition is pretty rough these days. -- Tony Randall
Men should have rough hands and be strong. -- Scott Caan
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. -- Monique Wittig
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. -- Corey Feldman
One rough patch is not the big picture. -- Ellen DeGeneres
[News is] a first rough draft of history. -- Phil Graham
When times get rough, keep your head up. -- CC Sabathia
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough. -- Inspectah Deck
The way of the pioneer is always rough. -- Harvey S. Firestone
Life is rough so you gotta be tough. -- Johnny Cash
Journalism is the first rough draft of history -- Donald E. Graham
Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product. -- Rabindranath Tagore
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life. -- Deborah Norville
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. -- George Eliot
Poems are rough notations for the music we are. -- Rumi
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. -- David Letterman
if its gets rough, you need to get tough. -- Lovely Goyal
News is only the first rough draft of history. -- Alan Barth
Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough -- Tim McGraw
We are rough men and used to rough ways. -- Bob Younger
Impossible things are really rough to do, you know. -- Brandon Sanderson
My acting career helped pull me through the rough times. -- Shirley Knight
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. -- Lord Chesterfield
It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough. -- Sue Wicks
Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough. -- Robert Rhodes James
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying. -- Michael Madsen
The present is always the best, even when its rough. -- Julien Torma
I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough. -- Jason Mraz
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. -- James Howell
It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks! -- S. E. Hinton
It's rough being a teenager in this day and age. -- Kay Panabaker
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk. -- John Milton
The birth of any show is always a rough one. -- Genevieve Gorder
Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu. -- Rashid Khalidi
On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood. -- Samantha Morton
Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough. -- Sam Abell
You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things -- Victoria Azarenka
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. -- Bernard Crick
Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough? -- Murray Walker

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