Quotes About Rough

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.

I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly.

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

I'd compare watching that thing to masturbating with sandpaper

They were missing teeth and spitting tobacco juice right on the floor—and you should have seen the men!

institutional self-reform is rare; the conscience is willing, but the culture is rough.

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.

My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.

Satan makes the way rough for the sinner who desires to get away from him.

Dibs was dibs, we didn't have to call it. Ever since we were born, we'd lived according to the rough frontier justice of even Stephen, and even Stephen had a perfect memory.

I came here prepared to fight an enemy," he murmured, his voice rough with need. "I came here expecting to feel contempt for you, not this. Christ, anything but this." He lowered his head and kissed her, hot and hard and deep.

Things have happened—so fast. Ten days ago, we didn't even know Rudy was sleeping rough again." "Isn't that a British term?" "It is." Mrs. Drysdale is allowed to speak to this at least. "But Rudy liked it. He said it was more like the way he lived. He wasn't homeless. Our door was always open to him. Always.

privacy did not exist aboard these ships—and if the sea happened to be rough

Use sounds that describe texture. Hard consonants sound rough and sharp, while soft consonants sound smooth. The word crackling sounds rough, while luminescent and slither sound smooth.

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.

rough, cheap carpet, a lesson in physics and friction. I couldn't tell how many shooters were left inside the

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.