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Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
The moon is very rugged. -- Alan Bean
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. -- Barbara Bush
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. -- George Ade
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. -- Jack Levine
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. -- William Henry Ashley
I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me. -- Susan Ford
If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it. -- Colin Angle
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. -- Eva Green
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty. -- Anthony Marra
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. -- Maureen McCormick
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. -- Charlotte Smith
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. -- Roger Bannister
The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look. -- Kurt Angle
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. -- William Lamb Melbourne
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires. -- Clive Sinclair
There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves. -- Marianne Williamson
President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? -- Ron Fournier
I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. -- Evelyn Glennie
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us. -- Charlie Pierce
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man. -- Patti Stanger
Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. -- Julian Castro
I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs. -- Abhishek Bachchan
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. -- John James Audubon
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. -- George Herbert
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. -- Florence King
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. -- John Dryden
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger -- Raekwon
...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. -- H. Rider Haggard
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature -- George Ade
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull. -- Clive James
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health. -- Mark Twain
[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. -- Laozi
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. -- Bruce Coslet
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. -- Francis Arinze
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. -- Geoffrey Nunberg
These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged. -- Grover Cleveland
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful. -- Vincent Canby
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it. -- Jeru the Damaja
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! -- Walter Scott
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. -- William C. Bryant
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world. -- Lord Chesterfield
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? -- Henry Ward Beecher
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are. -- Stephen Chbosky
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first? -- Harry Graham
There are no smooth paths to success. You have to straighten many rugged roads and scale numerous walls for the ultimate triumph. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no easy pathway to success. There are many rugged roads to straighten and walls to scale for the ultimate victory. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth. -- Warren Buffett
I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME? -- Tupac Shakur
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. -- Isabel Paterson
There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it. -- Tracy Caulkins
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man? -- Thomas Carlyle
In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne. -- Shane Claiborne
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through. -- Van Morrison
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories. -- Ezra Pound
You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler. -- Mr. Lee
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. -- George Bennard
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. -- William Shakespeare
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much. -- James A. Garfield
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean... -- Daniel Clowes
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It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products. -- Naomi Klein
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others... The last of the rugged individualists! -- Charles M. Schulz
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. -- Herbert Hoover

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